Re: VFAT bug?

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 14:38:55 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Antonio M. Trindade wrote:

>
> I think the VFAT fs is slightly broken.
>
> Why do I think it's broken? Simple: I dual-boot Win98 and Linux, and
> whenever I access a directory in my Windows partition from Linux, and then
> run NDD on it, it complains about invalid dates. It's not a serious bug,
> only annoying.
>

Do you know what it finds invalid about the dates? I note that MS-DOS
only has even seconds in the time field because the field can only
store 32 values. It might be some problem like that.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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