Re: a question about block device driver

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 4 Apr 2001 12:06:16 +0100 (BST)


> Thank you very much for your help.
> In the linux kernel version 2.4.X,
> Does anybody mount a hard drive with MSDOS type file system ??

yes

>
> When I mount this hard drive using the command :
> mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt/hd -o blocksize=1024
> After mounting a hard disk, I read a file , and the system occours errors.
> After I check the msdos file system in "usr/src/linux/fs/fat/cvf.c"

Block sizes != media block size are broken for FAT in all 2.4 kernels. Use
2.2.19 if you want to get any work done.

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