hi,

I just committed the fix to -current and requested a pull-up for 1.6.
(and no, it's not needed in 1.5.x).

thanks for the excellent bug report!

-Chuck


On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 10:56:22AM -0400, Rick Byers 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