From: Jos Hulzink <josh@stack.nl>
To: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>,
Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: VFS issues (was: Re: 2.5.5-pre1: mounting NTFS partitions -t VFAT)
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:03:39 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020219115519.C97916-100000@snail.stack.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200202191025.g1JAPMm11153@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > The type of a partition is written in the partition table, or something
> > similar. Maybe we should check that ?
>
> Partition type isn't available to fs driver. Think about mounting
> floppy/loopback/etc.
True. I never use floppys anymore :)
> Seems you guys are discussing non-problem here. What really needs to be done
> is to add more sanity checks to FAT superblock detection/validation code:
> * signatures like 55AA at end of 1st sector
> * sane values for various superblock data (if you see "FAT copies: 146"
> it is more than enough to tell it's not a FAT, right?)
>
> If anyone feels so inclined, please go to fs/fat/inode.c:fat_read_super()
> and hack on it. Send your patches to Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
> and tighten your seatbelt ;-)
Will hack tonight and see if my seatbelt is strong enough :) It has never
been used before, so maybe...
Jos
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-19 11:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-15 10:30 2.5.5-pre1: mounting NTFS partitions -t VFAT Jos Hulzink
2002-02-15 17:11 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-02-15 20:18 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2002-02-18 12:55 ` Jos Hulzink
2002-02-18 14:56 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2002-02-19 10:02 ` VFS issues (was: Re: 2.5.5-pre1: mounting NTFS partitions -t VFAT) Jos Hulzink
2002-02-19 11:52 ` Richard Russon
2002-02-19 12:48 ` Jos Hulzink
2002-02-19 13:34 ` Alexander Viro
2002-02-19 14:25 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-02-19 11:03 ` Jos Hulzink [this message]
2002-03-09 9:50 ` [BUG] 2.5.6: IPv6 fails to initialize Jos Hulzink
2002-03-09 20:55 ` Ben Clifford
2002-03-11 17:58 ` David S. Miller
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-19 12:21 VFS issues (was: Re: 2.5.5-pre1: mounting NTFS partitions -t VFAT) Andries.Brouwer
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