Re: How to make VFAT work right in 2.4.0-prereleaseu

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 7 Jan 2001 14:22:08 +0000 (GMT)


> > > =09", just delete all of it (or comment it out). This change wich has b=
> een
> > > made in the -prerelease versi=F3n, makes Netscape Messenger not to work
> >=20
> > If you do that you will corrupt your FAT fs.
>
> But only on SMP, right? The only other FAT change I see in -ac (apart
> from my patch) is the spinlock around fat_cache.

SMP and uniprocessor will both corrupt the fatfs sometimes if you ftruncate
files larger without the grow the file patch.

Returning 0 not -EPERM also seems to be a valid standards compliant behaviour

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