Re: MO-Drive under 2.4.3

Alan Cox
2001-04-14T14:28:22Z

> > This is a bug in the scsi layer. linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, not that any of
> > the scsi maintainers seem to care about it right now.
>
> Err..., now I'm confused. Last time this issue popped up, it was my
> understanding that it's generic_file_{read,write}'s limitation to filesystems
> with logical_blksize >= hw_blksize that makes MOs fail with VFAT. Now, is
> this all moot, or is the SCSI thing just an additional problem?

generic_file_* doesnt handle metadata issues - its too high up