> OK, this report is for 2.2.5 + rename-patch-10 + fat-patch-7
> AlphaPC164, egcs 1.1.2
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
> 1. chown now always returns EPERM, while chmod reports success but fails.
Hmm... I'll look at it.
[snip]
> So it seems that vfat is maybe overzealous in locking buffers?
Maybe... One possible source may be fat_get_entry() usage (much more
active now than it was in the old version). And fat_get_entry() does a lot
of unnecessary buffer cache activity. I'll try to clean it up. Something
is definitely wrong with buffer cache handling. Sometimes unlinked files
linger for a while.
Thanks,
Al
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