Hi, On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, zentara wrote:

I don't want to get you upset, since you know all the answers.:-) But that patch dosn't work, or else I'm way off in applying it.

First it isn't named VFAT32, its called fat32_joliet_nls_patch-0.2.8.

Yes, this is one of the things I dislike about this patch: It collects several things in one big patch. AFAIK there doesn't exist a VFAT32 patch alone. Meanwhile there's a version 0.2.9. I assume this patch will apply better against recent kernels.

And it apparently was for "linux-2.0.31-clean" ; cause it won't work on "linux-2.0.33.pre.SuSE.3".

I assume it will fail with a clean 2.0.33, too. We didn't change anything in the relevant parts of the kernel, so you probably need a newer version of the patch (<A HREF="http://www-plateau.cs.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html"><A HREF="http://www-plateau.cs.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html</A">http://www-plateau.cs.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html</A</A>>).

All it did was REMOVE the vfat option from the filesystems menu in menuconfig.

I think it's not a great deal to apply the rejects manually. But the new version of the patch explicitly states that it works with 2.0.33.

I don't use fat32 anyways, so it really dosn't matter--no complaints.

But it would be nice to tell people that SuSe supports fat32, and even Microsoft dosn't yet in NT.

Sure this would be nice. Would save me lots of questions ;-)

I seem to remember it worked OK under Caldera, it didn't seem buggy.

"Didn't seem buggy" is not enough ;-) This kind of change is very critical, because existing filesystem code is modified. If we end up with corrupted filesystems we have a BIG problem. If the kernel is buggy, that's bad for us. If only a S.u.S.E. modified kernel is buggy whereas the official kernel works, it's much worse for us. Therefore we're waiting for the inclusion of this patch into the official kernel. 2.1.x has it already and the web page states it will be included in 2.0.34 (if it's ever released).

zentara

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