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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: BUG in fat / msdos / vfat filesystem
From:       Richard Guenther <zxmpm11 () student ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1998-03-04 13:19:26
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Hi!

Sorry for the late reply. This patch helps noting (apart from the
oops going away). The new symptoms are: writes succeed (reading
the data with 2.1.65 works), but reading the written data
gives some random data out of the MO... (looks like contents of
other files/blocks).

Richard.

On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Gordon Chaffee wrote:

> Richard Guenther writes:
>  > In Kernels 2.1.8x there are problems with the fat filesystem when
>  > using 2048 bytes hardblocksize (MO-Drive). It seems that
>  > fat uses generic_file_read, but does not implement readpage -
>  > whoops! Testing for i_ops->readpage in generic_file_read (which
>  > is not done currently) catches the oops, but I rather want
>  > fat to work on my MO drive.
> 
> Let me know if this patch helps things any.
> 
> - Gordon


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