Re: 'vfat write' bugs

From: Sacha Chua (sachac@subdimension.com)
Date: Tue Apr 23 2002 - 11:36:10 EDT

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On 17 Apr, Mark G. Lewis (Lewis@erg.sri.com) said:

> 2) If the existing file is length zero, 'vfat write' writes in an
> infinite loop !!!

Aha! Good point. My cluster allocation appears to be wrong - I was
guessing when I wrote that... |)

Temporary workaround:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/hda/image count=65024
(0x1fc0000 in blocks).

then vfat write to that image.

I'm testing it now. Looks very promising. =)

Will fix the vfat cluster allocation bug soon.

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