From freebsd-hackers  Wed Jul 31 08:37:27 1996
From: Bruce Evans <bde () zeta ! org ! au>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 08:37:27 +0000
To: freebsd-hackers
Subject: Re: anyone working on upgrading the msdosfs to NetBSD levels?
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=freebsd-hackers&m=94346786426566

>All new FS's should expect to work on a "device" that is totally
>committed to the FS and looks like it starts at offset 0, and return
>EINVAL or EFAULT for out of range operations on the device.  If
>this were there now, then the MSDOSFS would be incapable of
>corrupting non-MSDOSFS disk areas with the current code.

It's always been there.  Broken code can only write outside the range
by corrupting the device number.

Bruce