Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933110Ab1D1Uvb (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:51:31 -0400 Received: from ksp.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.206]:52530 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932611Ab1D1Uv3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:51:29 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:51:28 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Michael Karcher Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi , dosfstools , mtools , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: End of FAT directories Message-ID: <20110428205128.GA23082@elf.ucw.cz> References: <1303498136.8485.128.camel@localhost> <87hb9qnho4.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <1303509408.8485.146.camel@localhost> <87bozxomqd.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <1303558711.8485.166.camel@localhost> <20110428132551.GA5701@ucw.cz> <1303998185.8188.18.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1303998185.8188.18.camel@localhost> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 922 Lines: 23 Hi! > > Kernel should stop at zero invalid entry. > > > > fsck should consider any garbage past zero entry as an error, and zero > > it out. (Complaining about duplicate blocks is unhelpful but better > > than nothing. It should really zero the garbage out.) > > In fact, what you describe is something I would call "consistent". I was > not implying that kernel and dosfsck should do exactly the same thing, > but I was implying that the kernel and dosfsck should either both or Aha, violent agreement, then. Good :-). Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/