Darrin B. Jewell wrote:
> 
> I have a 250gb maxtor usb/firewire hard drive.  It came
> preformatted with a msdos FAT32 filesystem.  Attempting to mount
> it returns EINVAL.  Is anyone working on removing this limitation?
> Is there a good reason why this is hard?

Noone has access to such hardware yet it seems :)
 
> A quick search for EINVAL in msdosfs_mountfs reveals a comment
> which may (or may not) be related:
> 
>   if (pmp->pm_HugeSectors > 0xffffffff / dirsperblk + 1) {
>      /*
>       * We cannot deal currently with this size of disk
>       * due to fileid limitations (see msdosfs_getattr and
>       * msdosfs_readdir)
>       */
>      error = EINVAL;
>      goto error_exit;
>   }

Yes, this might be the culprit. Might be easy to fix even.
Please file a PR about this, so that it has some chance
of being fixed eventually.
 
Jaromir
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