Re: End of FAT directories

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Apr 28 2011 - 16:51:34 EST


Hi!

> > Kernel should stop at zero invalid entry.
> >
> > fsck should consider any garbage past zero entry as an error, and zero
> > it out. (Complaining about duplicate blocks is unhelpful but better
> > than nothing. It should really zero the garbage out.)
>
> In fact, what you describe is something I would call "consistent". I was
> not implying that kernel and dosfsck should do exactly the same thing,
> but I was implying that the kernel and dosfsck should either both or

Aha, violent agreement, then. Good :-).
Pavel

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