On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 01:43:27PM -0600, Guy T. Rice wrote:
> I had previously reported being unable to duplicate the reported freezing
> problem with kfm and vfat partitions when a ".directory" file is created.
> However, after reading some of the recent messages posted here, I tried
> again, this time after unmounting my windows partition and remounting it
> using the "conv=auto" option. Sure enough, kfm freezes up bad!
>
> Oddly enough, if you then kill kfm, unmount the partition, and remount it
> using sane parameters, it works fine, even if you leave the ".directory"
> file with all the extra Ctrl-M characters in it! So it's not the having
> of the extra Ctrl-M's in the file that causes kfm to freeze, it's somehow
> related to the conversion process itself.
This is not odd. Ctrl-M doesn't confuse kfm.
What confuses it is this conversion itself, which does strange things while
kfm is opening the file and moving into it (e.g. it lies on the number of bytes
in the file).
> In any case, get the "conv=auto" out of your mount options, and the
> problem disappears.
Good.
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