On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> >> A ha! I've had lots of msdosfs data going bad lately
> >> (including a few gigs of personal info that I was
> >> attempting to back up, but I found that the compressed
> >> file was bad like you say). I mount my msdosfs
> >> filesystem read only at boot, but sometimes I unmount
> >> it and re-mount it readwrite to copy some stuff to it.
> >>
> >> Anything I can do to help?
> >
> >Stephen Ma supplied me with a patch that appears to have solved the
> >problem (it was some old code that wasn't converted over to UBC).  See
> >kern/17143 for the patch, hopefully it'll solve your problem too.
> >
> Is this patch in 1.6?

This patch isn't in _anything_ yet, the bug is still in the "open" state.
I certainly hope it gets included in 1.6, seems rather serious to me.

Rick