linux-kernel - Re: End of FAT directories

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Date:	Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:51:28 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Michael Karcher <kernel@...rcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de>
Cc:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>,
	dosfstools <daniel@...ian.org>, mtools <Alain@...ux.lu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: End of FAT directories

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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