Re: MO-Drive under 2.4.7 usinf vfat
Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:35:47 +0200
On Tue, Jul 24 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > FAT oopses, right?
> >
> > It will not be fixed (Logical sector size smaller than device sector
> > size) directly, there needs to be support for this type of thing. For
> > now folks should just use loop on top of DVD-RAM, for instance.
>
> Oopses are bad. It means any random user can trick you into crashing your
> box just by swapping media around or you crash it in error
>
> I/O error by all means - but oops is a bug
I'm not disagreeing, I'm just saying how I would like to see it get
fixed. That's all.
--
Jens Axboe
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