Re: FAT fs sanity check patch

OGAWA Hirofumi
2003-12-14T14:34:33Z

Maciej Zenczykowski <maze@cela.pl> writes:

> > Bad hack? Why? Do you know how mount operation is dangerous and it's
> > difficult for fatfs? Do you want to handle the any format as FAT?
> >
> > This is completely unrelated to handling the cache.
>
> How about not playing around with fat detection and instead implement a
> force mount flag for FAT, which would ignore all (most?) detection errors.
> Of course if errors occured later you'd end up with a R/O filesystem. And if
> you forced something that wasn't FAT, you'd be screwed... but that's to be
> expected...

Yes, this flag would be one of candidates... However the scandisk/chkdisk
of windows fixed this bad format. Such a fsck may be best solution, I think.

Well, since the number of blacklists is three, I would like to wait
the more report before doing anything.

Thanks.