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Subject: Re: MO-Drive under 2.4.7 usinf vfat
To: axboe@suse.de (Jens Axboe)
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 18:00:50 +0100 (BST)
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> FAT oopses, right?
> 
> It will not be fixed (Logical sector size smaller than device sector
> size) directly, there needs to be support for this type of thing. For
> now folks should just use loop on top of DVD-RAM, for instance.

Oopses are bad. It means any random user can trick you into crashing your
box just by swapping media around or you crash it in error

I/O error by all means - but oops is a bug
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