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Summary: fatfs can't handle QEMU's virtual fat block device
Project: The GNU Hurd
Submitted by: tschwinge
Submitted on: Tuesday 03/27/07 at 12:33
Category: Hurd Servers
Severity: 1 - Wish
Priority: 3 - Low
Item Group: Standard Compliance
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
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Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Reproducibility: Every Time
Size (loc): None
Planned Release: None
Effort: 0.00
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Details:
QEMU can -- on the fly -- create a virtual fat block device based on a
directory hierarchy on the host system. (For example: ``-hdc
fat:some/where''.)
The Hurd's fatfs translator, however, can't cope with that block device. It
may be that it's simply too strict when checking the device for validity; it
might also be that QEMU's emulation is not completely done according to the
specification.
As GNU GRUB and other operating systems (I guess) are able to handle these
block device, I suppose that it's a (probably minor) issue in our fatfs
implementation.
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