Re: How to make VFAT work right in 2.4.0-prereleaseu

[Alan Cox]

> > > =09", just delete all of it (or comment it out). This change wich has b=
> een
> > > made in the -prerelease versi=F3n, makes Netscape Messenger not to work
> >=20
> > If you do that you will corrupt your FAT fs.
> 
> But only on SMP, right?  The only other FAT change I see in -ac (apart
> from my patch) is the spinlock around fat_cache.

SMP and uniprocessor will both corrupt the fatfs sometimes if you ftruncate
files larger without the grow the file patch.

Returning 0 not -EPERM also seems to be a valid standards compliant behaviour