Re: netbsd crashes when using fat filesys

[Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost>]

Hi Martin,

Martin Husemann wrote:
>   - the original issue reported here is*something else*  mangling/breaking
>     a FAT file system and NetBSD not dealing with the result. This can
>     either be a bug in Solaris or in NetBSD's interpration of the FAT
>     file system format - we just don't know (yet).
>
>     An image of a file system in broken state is absolutely required here
>     to debug the issue.
>
>     If the OP can't provide such an image, we need a*working recipe*  how
>     to reproduce the issue, plus someone with a Solaris 10 installation
>     to create the broken image, plus someone to debug the result.
>     Currently we have neither the recipe nor someone with Solaris 10 installed
>     willing to help.

I have here locally a Solaris 8 and Solaris 10 box - both sparc64, 
however no easy way mount stuff since they are servers. I think there 
are hard-to-access USBs in the back, if they can mount USB keys, I could 
try to reproduce. Never tried.
It would be best if NetBSD could e.g. just refuse to mount, dive a 
system log and warn with fsck or try to be smart otherwise, not crash!

Riccardo