From: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
To: Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, johannes.schindelin@gmx.de
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Tiny compliance bug in `block-vvfat.c'
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 19:18:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070401181845.GA29135@networkno.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070328213016.GA28328@fencepost.gnu.org>
Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> [I'm not subscribed to the mailing list, so please keep me cced.]
>
>
> Hello!
>
> We kept wondering why the GNU/Hurd's `fatfs' translator (think Unix
> kernel file system driver) didn't want to ``eat'' the QEMU vvfat
> on-the-fly served floppy images (created from a directory structure using
> ``-fdb fat:floppy:some/where'') until we finally traced it down to a tiny
> QEMU bug in the said vvfat code -- see the following patch. That
> translator kept telling us that it had expected the file system image to
> be as twice as big as it actually was.
>
> Handling such images was no problem for GNU GRUB and the Linux kernel,
> but it seems that the GNU/Hurd's fat file system implementation is more
> obeying to standards. (Now, is that good or bad? ;-)
It's bad AFAICS. 36 sectors is the right value for a 2.88 MB floppy.
Thiemo
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2007-03-28 21:30 [Qemu-devel] Tiny compliance bug in `block-vvfat.c' Thomas Schwinge
2007-04-01 18:18 ` Thiemo Seufer [this message]
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