Re: maxtor onetouch usb 200gb msdosfs

From: Daniel O'Connor (doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au)
Date: 10/30/03

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    To: toni@stderror.at, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 23:16:43 +1030

    On Thursday 30 October 2003 04:16, Toni Schmidbauer wrote:
    > is this a known problem? under linux mounting the fs works
    > flawlessly. seems like this is a limitation of the freebsd msdosfs
    > driver. is it possible to port the driver from linux?

    To the best of my knowledge it's a limitation in the way msdosfs uses fileid
    (which is a 32 bit quantity) although my knowledge of MSDOS-FS and FreeBSD
    file system interfaces is basically non-existant.

    About the only work around would be to split the disk up :( 

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