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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>,
	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MO-Drive under 2.4.7 usinf vfat
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:35:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010725083547.B3090@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010724103310.L4221@suse.de> <E15P5YA-0000NI-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E15P5YA-0000NI-00@the-village.bc.nu>

On Tue, Jul 24 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > FAT oopses, right?
> > 
> > It will not be fixed (Logical sector size smaller than device sector
> > size) directly, there needs to be support for this type of thing. For
> > now folks should just use loop on top of DVD-RAM, for instance.
> 
> Oopses are bad. It means any random user can trick you into crashing your
> box just by swapping media around or you crash it in error
> 
> I/O error by all means - but oops is a bug

I'm not disagreeing, I'm just saying how I would like to see it get
fixed. That's all.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-07-25  6:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-22 14:49 MO-Drive under 2.4.7 usinf vfat Douglas Gilbert
2001-07-22 17:47 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2001-07-24  8:33 ` Jens Axboe
2001-07-24 17:00   ` Alan Cox
2001-07-24 17:50     ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2001-07-25  6:35     ` Jens Axboe [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-21 16:15 Douglas Gilbert
2001-07-21 13:26 Detlev Offenbach
2001-07-21 16:17 ` Steven Walter
2001-07-22 14:07 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2001-07-23 13:38 ` Pavel Machek

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