Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.31 vfat driver broken?

2009-12-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 03:18:20AM +0100, Penguin Lover Frank Steinmetzger squawked: Am Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2009 schrieb Willie Wong: When you plug-in your device, what does /sys/block/sdb/queue/max_hw_sectors_kb say? 120 Okay, this checks out with the hw_sector_size says 512

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.31 vfat driver broken?

2009-12-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 04:58:35PM +0100, Penguin Lover Frank Steinmetzger squawked: You are not running any sort of LVM, RAID, or encryption, are you? A similar bug seems to have occured in device mapper, where dm gave the underlying fs the wrong values for max_hw_sector. I reckon

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.31 vfat driver broken?

2009-12-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 11:17:38PM +0100, Penguin Lover Frank Steinmetzger squawked: I use FAT32 on my external HDDs to make it easier to share with other people and OSes. Never had a problem before, but now I do. Lately, when I save videos to my disks, and play them back after the file

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.31 vfat driver broken?

2009-12-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 11:17:38PM +0100, Penguin Lover Frank Steinmetzger squawked: I use FAT32 on my external HDDs to make it easier to share with other people and OSes. Never had a problem before, but now I do. Lately, when I save videos to my disks, and play them back after the file

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.31 vfat driver broken?

2009-12-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2009 schrieb Willie Wong: I use FAT32 on my external HDDs to make it easier to share with other people and OSes. Never had a problem before, but now I do. Lately, when I save videos to my disks, and play them back after the file system cache is emptied, they

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.31 vfat driver broken?

2009-12-10 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de Am Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2009 schrieb Willie Wong: I heard romours of problems with the current FAT implementation due to M$. I went back to 2.6.30 for the moment. So what???s your proposal? Usually I don???t have the

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.31 vfat driver broken?

2009-12-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2009 schrieb Willie Wong: When you plug-in your device, what does /sys/block/sdb/queue/max_hw_sectors_kb say? 120 hw_sector_size says 512 I did another test: I opened the syslog in continuous output (tail -f) and watched it while copying a file of 350 MB.

[gentoo-user] 2.6.31 vfat driver broken?

2009-12-09 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hi guys n gals I use FAT32 on my external HDDs to make it easier to share with other people and OSes. Never had a problem before, but now I do. Lately, when I save videos to my disks, and play them back after the file system cache is emptied, they have completely different content (of files