On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 02:23:11PM +0530, Mukund JB`. wrote: > Dear all, > > Its time that there should be a fix applied to the FAT12 subsystem in > Linux. > I have noted that removable device FAT12 formatted in Camera like > digital media does NOT have the FAT12 in sector 0 instead it has a > partition table that speaks about the FAT12 fs start sector. > > Such devices that do NOT have the file system in sector 0 instead have > the partition table are failing to mount under Linux. > Why is it so? > > I have even tested USB mounted device suspecting the in-built > card-reader driver I am using? > > Even it fails. > Who has to handle this? which layer?
The user. If there's a partition table linux will parse it and create partitions. You'll have to mount the device node for the partition then. That's totally standard behaviour as for any other block device. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
