Subject: Re: msdos filesystem corruption
To: Rick Byers <rb-netbsd@BigScaryChildren.net>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/04/2002 10:51:12
In message <Pine.NEB.4.44.0206041046550.8257-100000@Apenheul.BigScaryChildren.n
et>, Rick Byers writes:
>On Wed, 29 May 2002, Andy R 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?

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