Re: Wrong free clusters count on FAT32

[Bodo Eggert]

On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> Bodo Eggert <7eggert@xxxxxx> writes:

> > Windows _does_ care*, it will pretend the disk to be full.
> 
> Did you test on 2000 or XP? (e.g. write 0 to free_clusters, then
> create new file.)

That was back when I still used W98.

> > - usefree is a bad name (I'd suggest recalc_free instead),
> 
> Is it about nofree option?

Yes. I think recalc_free is way more descriptive.

> > and your description is too cryptic to be understood by a non-linux
> > FAT expert.
> 
> Um... why do we need to care about non-linux people in the patch?

Non-experts in Linux FAT implementation details. "recalc sounds like might 
take long, let's try to disable it" should be all it takes to get a fast 
mount.
-- 
Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say:
35. Ummm... Didn't you say you turned it off?
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