The following reply was made to PR bin/153426; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Bruce Evans
To: Keith White
Cc: freebsd-gnats-sub...@freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/153426: [patch] fsck_msdosfs only works with sector size
512
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 01:23:25 +1100 (EST)
On Fri, 24 Dec 2010, Keith White wrote:
Description:
It is possible to create and use an msdos filesystem with 2048-byte
sectors; but it is not possible to "fsck" it. "fsck_msdosfs" on
such a fileystem returns:
"could not read boot block (Invalid argument)"
Fix:
The following POC
>Number: 153426
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: [patch] fsck_msdosfs only works with sector size 512
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible:freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:
On Thu Dec 23 10, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:37:20 +
> Alexander Best wrote:
>
> > is this output right at the beginning normal?
> >
> > fio: this platform does not support process shared mutexes, forcing
> > use of threads. Use the 'thread' option to get rid of this warning.
On Sat Dec 11 10, Bruce Cran wrote:
> [replying privately since you've reassigned the PR]
>
> On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 19:57:13 GMT
> arun...@freebsd.org wrote:
>
> > Back into the pool, since i was not able to contact Brian Kernighan.
>
> Did you try b...@cs.princeton.edu ? Wikipedia claims he's cur
