Re: udev and friends not able to mount Atari GEMDOS partition
Hi Emmanuel,
CC Michael
On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 11:28 AM Emmanuel Kasper <manu@debian.org> wrote:
> > Note that we still have a few out-of-tree kernel patches for Atari FAT
> > support as well, cfr. the top 3 commits of
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k.git/log/?h=m68k-queue
> >
> > Needs some love from a knowledgeable person to send this upstream...
> >
> > Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>
> Hi Geert !
> I had a look at the patches as I was dabbling in GEMDOS FAT handling
> these days, and I have to say I don't understand the purpose of the
> commit you mentioned:
>
> fat: Atari FAT updates
> Add support for the Atari-variant of the FAT filesystem
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k.git/commit/?h=m68k-queue&id=501bd95410f8347ed80bff873498db7a1b044457
>
> to the best of my knowledge, Linux was always able to mount Atari FAT
> partitions, as long as the logical sector size of the FAT was up to 4096
> bytes, this limit itself coming from
> https://github.com/gregkh/linux/blame/071a0578b0ce0b0e543d1e38ee6926b9cc21c198/fs/fat/inode.c#L1508
>
> what problem is being fixed, or new feature added with the patch ?
> or am I missing something ?
TBH, I don't know. This patch came from the old Linux/m68k CVS.
If anyone feels it can be dropped, I can do so.
If anyone feels it is needed, please submit it upstream.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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