Re: admutil problems

Vladimir Dergachev (vdergach@sas.upenn.edu)
Tue, 13 Apr 1999 12:22:20 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:

> From: M Sweger <mikesw@whiterose.net>
>
> The admutils pkg at most sunsites is still v1.18 whereas the
> admutils pkg at ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk is v1.24
>
> OK - I'll check versions and update where necessary.
>
> Another problem I'm encountering with passwd is that the setpwname
> uses the libc link(), unlink() and rename() functions. Presently
> with the Linux v2.2.x and libc v2.07pre7-v2.0.112 and v2.1 there
>
> Ah - I do not understand why this has not been plastered with
> big fat letters all over 2.2.x Changes:
>
> DO NOT USE 2.2.[0-5] WITH FAT, VFAT, UMSDOS. IT IS BROKEN.
>
you are serious ? may be you meant umsdos on (FAT/VFAT) ?
I am using 2.2.5 now (and was using 2.2.1) and didn't see any problem with
my vfat partitions.. (of course I don't do much with them from linux -
except installing a kernel occasionally)

Vladimir Dergachev

> (More generally, there is no reason to suppose that 2.2.x is stable
> for any filesystem other than ext2. However, in the vfat case the
> problems are probably well understood, and Alexander Viro has
> produced patches that you may try, maybe at
> ftp://ftp.math.psu.edu/pub/viro/rename+fat-patch-8.gz .)
>
> Let me cc the Changes maintainer.
>
> Best regards, Andries
>
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