Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Files truncate on vfat filesystem | From | OGAWA Hirofumi <> | Date | Wed, 07 May 2003 05:02:46 +0900 |
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Peder Stray <peder@ifi.uio.no> writes:
> > What partition size do you use? And does that FAT use what logical > > sector size? The directory entry pointer may be overflowed... > > 250GB partition, FAT32 LBA (partition type 0x0c i think). > > The problem is verry inconsistent as i said earlier, so the number of > files in a directory doesn't seem to matter, nor do the depth in the > directory structure. Some files i manage to copy yo the disk, some files i > don't... I havent managed to find any pattern in what files this affects.
I meant, "directory entry pointer" is position of the directory entry in the _partition_. like the following,
in fs/fat/misc.c:fat__get_entry()
offset &= sb->s_blocksize - 1; *de = (struct msdos_dir_entry *) ((*bh)->b_data + offset); *ino = (sector << sbi->dir_per_block_bits) + (offset >> MSDOS_DIR_BITS); ^^^
This is used for _updates_ (not create) of the directory entry. And there is a possibility of cause of the problem which you said. If my guess is right and a partition will be splited small, a problem will not occur.
In short, I think it's the bug of fat driver and it's needed the fix. -- OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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