Re: FAT bugs...

Michael Nelson (mikenel@wam.umd.edu)
Fri, 17 Apr 1998 18:32:24 -0400 (EDT)

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On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Matija Nalis wrote:
> Hmmmmm, the kernel debug messages above (kill_dentry and stuff) are mine.
> Problem is, they have nothing to do with VFAT. There are in UMSDOS.
>
> Could it be that you mounted umsdos partition recently (eg. since last
> reboot), probably on /mnt ? There is known problem with umsdos currently,
> that it does not completely un-register itself on umount (working on finding
> out why) so next mount will use umsdosfs regardless of fs-type specified.
>
> Also, since you obviously use UMSDOS, please read fs/umsdos/README-WIP.txt.
> I even think there is a note warning about this (and many other) problems.

The first time I mounted the drives I used UMSDOS, got the errors,
switched to vfat and still got the errors. Since I rebooted I've been
using vfat exclusively and haven't had any problems.

-mike

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