msdosfs or ehci corruption?

Mike Silbersack silby at silby.com
Tue Apr 5 14:38:57 PDT 2005


On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Rudolf Cejka wrote:

> Mike Silbersack wrote (2005/04/05):
>> On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Skip Ford wrote:
>>> I ran into an odd situation with msdosfs as well within the last
>>> few days which sounds related.
>> I'm not crazy!  Whoo!
>> Is yours on a USB connected drive, or a drive connected via ata/scsi?  If
>> yours is ata/scsi, then we can eliminate USB from the problem.
>
> Hi, I'm not sure, if it is the same problem, but we tried to export msdosfs
> (on ata drive) via samba from FreeBSD 5.3, but there was too much data
> corruption and problems. We switched msdosfs partitions to ufs and the
> server runs without problems since then.
>
> -- 
> Rudolf Cejka <cejkar at fit.vutbr.cz> http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~cejkar

I think that's a different issue, dealing with how msdosfs handles 
sendfile, mmap etc.  Right now, even simple things like mkdir causes 
problems. :(

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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