Re: newfs_msdos and DVD-RAM

From: Andriy Gapon <avg_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:47:16 +0300
on 29/03/2010 23:29 Fabian Keil said the following:
> Andriy Gapon <avg_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Thus, clearly, it is a fault of a tool that formatted the media for FAT.
>> It should have picked correct values, or rejected incorrect values if
>> those were provided as overrides via command line options.
> 
> The kernel still shouldn't panic, though.

A quick reply to this point only - yes, I completely agree.
But remember that the panic happened only after the sources were modified :)
Jokes aside, mountmsdosfs() should reject incorrect combination of bytes/sector
and sectors/cluster and should produce proper diagnostics for that.

-- 
Andriy Gapon
Received on Mon Mar 29 2010 - 18:47:22 UTC

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