Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 7 Jan 2001 03:07:02 +0100 (CET) | From | Eelco Dolstra <> | Subject | Re: How to make VFAT work right in 2.4.0-prereleaseu |
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Hi,
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > - edit file fs/fat/inode.c, look in the function named > > "fat_notify_change" (at about line 901), where it says:" > > /* FAT cannot truncate to a longer file */ > > if (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) { > > if (attr->ia_size > inode->i_size) > > return -EPERM; > > } > > ", just delete all of it (or comment it out). This change wich has been > > made in the -prerelease versión, makes Netscape Messenger not to work > > If you do that you will corrupt your FAT fs.
But only on SMP, right? The only other FAT change I see in -ac (apart from my patch) is the spinlock around fat_cache.
Regards,
Eelco.
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