From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH to access old-style FAT fs
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 02:19:54 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hdycujb9.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bvf3b3$6pr$2@terminus.zytor.com>
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> This is of course dangerous, since it could create conflicts.
>
> Thus, I suggest we do write new 0x00 markers; even though it's not
> required (it only matters if the filesystem is out of spec and
> therefore by definition corrupt), it would help the Psion, and
> wouldn't cause any problems for in-spec filesystems.
Yes, that cluster is dangerous. However, repair should be fsck's
job. IMO, for repair we shouldn't add unneeded I/O to normal path.
--
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-31 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-26 17:39 PATCH to access old-style FAT fs Frodo Looijaard
2004-01-26 19:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-27 12:55 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-01-27 18:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-27 20:17 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-01-28 11:56 ` Frodo Looijaard
2004-01-28 20:08 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-01-28 20:24 ` Frodo Looijaard
2004-01-28 21:01 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-01-29 10:56 ` Frodo Looijaard
2004-01-31 2:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-31 17:19 ` OGAWA Hirofumi [this message]
2004-01-29 22:39 ` Frodo Looijaard
2004-01-29 22:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-30 0:30 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-30 3:40 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-02-01 14:51 ` Frodo Looijaard
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