Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 15 Jun 1996 15:23:45 -0700 | From | Gordon Chaffee <> | Subject | Re: Serious fat + ramdisk/loopback bug |
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In <hpa.31c09311.Linux.is.free@freya.yggdrasil.com> H. Peter Anvin writes: > There seems to be a bad interaction between the FAT filesystem driver > and the ramdisk/loopback drivers. This presumably indicates a buffer > cache problem, possible something having to do with the new buffer > cache code?
Take a look at your kernel log messages. You may see some messages like
Jun 15 15:14:52 zeego kernel: Directory sread (sector 32) failed Jun 15 15:14:52 zeego kernel: ll_rw_block: device 07:00: only 1024-char blocks implemented (512)
Then try mounting your loopback device with an explicit setting of the block size:
mount -t msdos -o loop,blocksize=1024 -r floppy /mnt
or for the ram disk
mount -t msdos -o blocksize=1024 -r /dev/ram /mnt
This allowed it to work for me.
Gordon Chaffee chaffee@bugs-bunny.cs.berkeley.edu
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