svn commit: r227454 - head/sbin/newfs_msdos

Kostik Belousov kostikbel at gmail.com
Fri Nov 11 21:14:21 UTC 2011


On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 08:31:48PM +0000, Xin LI wrote:
> Author: delphij
> Date: Fri Nov 11 20:31:48 2011
> New Revision: 227454
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/227454
> 
> Log:
>   Use __packed to prevent alignment from taking place, which otherwise may
>   change the on-disk format in an incompatible way.  Without this change,
>   msdosfs created on FreeBSD/arm would not be mountable.
>   
>   PR:		bin/162486
>   Submitted by:	Ian Lepore <freebsd damnhippie dyndns org>
>   Reported by:	Mattia Rossi <mrossi at swin.edu.au>
>   MFC after:	3 days

I suspect there is much more places with the similar issues.
FAT structure definitions were not centralized, AFAIR.
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