Subject: Re: Wicked bad MSDOS problems.
To: Sean Berry (most of the time) <spberry@iastate.edu>
From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/25/1996 14:52:49
Sean Berry (most of the time) <spberry@iastate.edu> writes:

> I came to two conclusions.  Doing 'mkdir' in an msdos filesystem will crash
> the system.  (page fault something or other, easily reproduced if necessary)

This has been fixed in -current.

> If a partition is greater than 512M, it will not crash, but data written to
> the partition will be corrupted.  (executables won't, etc) (tested with
> 400M, 450M vs 1001M partitions)

This hasn't.

--Michael