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Re: msdosfs and small sectors



On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 03:10:01PM +0200, Maxime Villard wrote:
 > I thought about that. I haven't found a clear spec on this, but it is
 > implicitly suggested that 512 is the minimal size (from what I've seen
 > here and there). And the smallest BytesPerSec allowed for fat devices
 > is 512. But still, nothing really clear.

If you're afraid some real device might turn up with 128-byte sectors
or something, complain if it's less than 64. Or 32. It doesn't really
matter.

The error message should always print, though.

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost


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