Re: FAT statfs loop abort on read-error

[OGAWA Hirofumi]

Sancho Dauskardt <sda@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi,
> 
>   It's a while back, but now here's a patch that "works for me".
> Once applied, we get a nice -EIO when doing a df / statfs() on a
> mounted FAT partition with removed media (without this would hang for
> minutes).
> 
> The change will affect anybody calling fat_access() (the cvf stuff,
> other fat-dependent modules).

Yes, it looks like broken the fat_cvf API. So we should remove the
fat_cvf stuff, and it should return the real error code.

Even fat was broken. (fat_read_root etc. was not addressed)

Thanks.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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