From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
To: Jos Hulzink <josh@stack.nl>
Cc: Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5.5-pre1: mounting NTFS partitions -t VFAT
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 23:56:35 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874rken8ik.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020218134640.Y24227-100000@toad.stack.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20020218134640.Y24227-100000@toad.stack.nl>
Jos Hulzink <josh@stack.nl> writes:
> Hi Ogawa,
>
> Your patch seems to fix it more or less, not the way it should be
> fixed, imho. Partitions other than FAT return bogus information, but
> bogus is not always zero. Fortunately enough, one of those new if
> statements returns an error, but this is a "works for me"
> solution, not a decent one.
No, that patch are validity check for FAT, not for you.
> What lacks is a fingerprint detector, and iirc -long time ago- FAT has a
> very easy to detect fingerprint.
>
> I'll dig into FAT documentation tonight.
I read the document repeatedly and did much tests. If you read the
document, you may use BS_OEMName or BS_FilSysType, however, these
don't have a meaning.
--
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-18 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ 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 [this message]
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
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
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