> fat_free: skipped EOF
> ry sread (sector 0x16a096d6) failed.
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> 08:04: rw=0, want=189811563, limit=88839945
> directory sread (sector=0x16a096d6) failed.
>
> blah blah blah, about 6 million entries of that with the want= value
> incrementing every now and again, and ending with the nice killer:
>
> Filesystem panic (08:04)
> FAT error
> Directory 383816: Bad FAT
>
> Oh yeah, it got another error at the end I thought particularly cute:
> <4>FAT: fat_truncate called through fs is read-only, uhh...
> Last Message Repeated 47 times
>
> If anyone figures out what the hell happened, please email me at
> azi@lfx.org. I'm not on the kernel mailing list. Until this is fixed, I
> guess I can't trust the FAT32 driver with partitions over 8.4GB.. damn.
> At least I have a backup of that drive, only lost 2 days of work...
Try 2.2.7 + fat-patch-17 (due for submission to Linus in a week or so).
Patch lives on ftp.math.psu.edu/pub/viro/fat-patch-17.gz
HTH,
Al
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