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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: anyone working on upgrading the msdosfs to NetBSD levels?
From:       Terry Lambert <terry () lambert ! org>
Date:       1996-07-31 17:29:45
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> >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.

The sd and od strategy rotutines do not error out.

I am not sure I trust dscheck() entirely (since corruption occurs).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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