Large msdosfs disk will not mount on RELENG_6
Max Khon
fjoe at samodelkin.net
Tue Nov 28 12:22:08 PST 2006
Hi!
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 06:56:05PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > [...]
> > Well, the mentioned problems (running out of kernel memory
> > and NFS export difficulties) can occur with msdosfs file
> > systems of any size, including ones that are smaller than
> > 128 GB. It would be really annoying to not be able to
> > mount a USB stick with a lot of files on a machine with
> > small RAM (it could panic the machine without warning).
> > [...]
>
> I'm afraid that part of my mail was wrong. If the file
> system is smaller than 128 GB, the mapping table is not
> used, even if MSDOSFS_LARGE is enabled in the kernel.
Looks like MSDOSFS_LARGE should be enabled by default.
/fjoe
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