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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Michael Karcher <kernel@mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>,
	dosfstools <daniel@debian.org>, mtools <Alain@linux.lu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: End of FAT directories
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:51:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110428205128.GA23082@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1303998185.8188.18.camel@localhost>

Hi!

> > Kernel should stop at zero invalid entry.
> > 
> > fsck should consider any garbage past zero entry as an error, and zero
> > it out. (Complaining about duplicate blocks is unhelpful but better
> > than nothing.  It should really zero the garbage out.)
> 
> In fact, what you describe is something I would call "consistent". I was
> not implying that kernel and dosfsck should do exactly the same thing,
> but I was implying that the kernel and dosfsck should either both or

Aha, violent agreement, then. Good :-).
									Pavel

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-28 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-22 18:48 End of FAT directories Michael Karcher
2011-04-22 18:51 ` End of FAT directories (added missing reference) Michael Karcher
2011-04-22 20:40 ` End of FAT directories OGAWA Hirofumi
2011-04-22 21:56   ` Michael Karcher
2011-04-23  0:06     ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2011-04-23 11:38       ` Michael Karcher
2011-04-23 13:46         ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2011-04-28 13:25         ` Pavel Machek
2011-04-28 13:43           ` Michael Karcher
2011-04-28 15:44             ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2011-06-28 23:09               ` Alain Knaff
2011-04-28 20:51             ` Pavel Machek [this message]

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