Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PATCH to access old-style FAT fs | From | OGAWA Hirofumi <> | Date | Sun, 01 Feb 2004 02:19:54 +0900 |
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> This is of course dangerous, since it could create conflicts. > > Thus, I suggest we do write new 0x00 markers; even though it's not > required (it only matters if the filesystem is out of spec and > therefore by definition corrupt), it would help the Psion, and > wouldn't cause any problems for in-spec filesystems.
Yes, that cluster is dangerous. However, repair should be fsck's job. IMO, for repair we shouldn't add unneeded I/O to normal path. -- 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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