--- Rick Byers <rb-netbsd@BigScaryChildren.net> wrote:
> 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

I haven't done your recreate of this problem, but I've
always been on 1.5.x. I'm pretty sure I was at 1.5.2
when the corruption occurred. Is this applicable? I'm
at 1.5.3_RC2 now...

Andy 


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