Panic with msdosfs vs 1.3TB FAT32

[Paul B Mahol]

On 10/6/10, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira <lioux-list at uol.com.br> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 	I mounted a 1.3TB FAT32 (32k cluster) filesystem on esata
> /dev/ada4s1 under /media/esata/ with the '-l' (large option).
>
> 	I tried to create a directory and files but got errors:
>
> ------
>
> g_vfs_done():ada4s1[WRITE(offset=-980247646208, length=32768)]error = 5
> g_vfs_done():ada4s1[WRITE(offset=-980247646208, length=32768)]error = 5
> g_vfs_done():ada4s1[WRITE(offset=-980247613440, length=32768)]error = 5
> g_vfs_done():ada4s1[WRITE(offset=-980247646208, length=32768)]error = 5
> g_vfs_done():ada4s1[WRITE(offset=-980247613440, length=32768)]error = 5
> g_vfs_done():ada4s1[WRITE(offset=-980247580672, length=32768)]error = 5
> g_vfs_done():ada4s1[WRITE(offset=-980247646208, length=32768)]error = 5
> g_vfs_done():ada4s1[WRITE(offset=-980247613440, length=32768)]error = 5
> g_vfs_done():ada4s1[WRITE(offset=-980247580672, length=32768)]error = 5
> g_vfs_done():ada4s1[WRITE(offset=-980247646208, length=32768)]error = 5
> g_vfs_done():ada4s1[WRITE(offset=-980247613440, length=32768)]error = 5
> g_vfs_done():ada4s1[WRITE(offset=-980247580672, length=32768)]error = 5
>
> ------
>
> 	Then, I tried unmounting the filesystem which resulted on
>
> ------
>
> fsync: giving up on dirty
> 0xffffff01bad6e1d8: tag devfs, type VCHR
>     usecount 1, writecount 0, refcount 38253 mountedhere 0xffffff00ac899600
>     flags ()
>     v_object 0xffffff008b839ca8 ref 0 pages 44786
>     lock type devfs: EXCL by thread 0xffffff016506cba0 (pid 76462)
>         dev ada4s1
> g_vfs_done():ada4s1[WRITE(offset=-980247646208, length=32768)]error = 5
> g_vfs_done():ada4s1[WRITE(offset=-980247613440, length=32768)]error = 5
> g_vfs_done():ada4s1[WRITE(offset=-980247580672, length=32768)]error = 5
> fsync: giving up on dirty
> 0xffffff01bad6e1d8: tag devfs, type VCHR
>     usecount 1, writecount 0, refcount 38253 mountedhere 0xffffff00ac899600
>     flags ()
>     v_object 0xffffff008b839ca8 ref 0 pages 44786
>     lock type devfs: UNLOCKED
>         dev ada4s1
>
> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> cpuid = 1; apic id = 01
> fault virtual address   = 0x4
> fault code              = supervisor read data, page not present
> instruction pointer     = 0x20:0xffffffff803e60e4
> stack pointer           = 0x28:0xffffff80e79ba860
> frame pointer           = 0x28:0xffffff80e79ba8a0
> code segment            = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
>                         = DPL 0, pres 1, long 1, def32 0, gran 1
> processor eflags        = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
> current process         = 25 (syncer)
>
> ------
>
> 	The filesystem is clean since I find no errors under Windows
> ('chkdsk /f').
>
> 	I can otherwise mount, read and write on smaller FAT32
> filesystems.  I think there might be a problem with the handling
> of such a big FAT32 filesystem.
>
> 	A complete textdump is available at
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~lioux/panic/2010100500/textdump.tar.2
>
> 	Is this kind of error expected? Is there anything I can do
> to help?
>
> 	I can reproduce this error with the 1.3TB fs easily.

Comment in source claims that support for large fs are experimental
and safe only in read only mode.

Looking at your output it is obvious that offset should not be negative...