Ryan Little wrote: >On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 09:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>- When formatting a loopback filesystem greater than 2GB in size on a >> vfat partition, DrakX crashes every time. This problem existed in >> 8.2 as well -- it would be nice to prohibit this if vfat can't >> handle it. >> >> >This is a know limitation of the FAT filesytem as old as DOS. If you >think about it, a loop filesystem is nothing more than a single file on >the parent filesystem. FAT has (and has always had) a single file limit >of 2GB. I do agree that it would be nice to have some hack to DrakX that >would warn you about it...but I think it would be tough to do (maybe at >least popping up a warning about loop filesystems over 2GB on VFAT would >be nice?) > That's kind of what I was expecting. All I'm asking is to prevent me from shooting myself in the foot, if that's really the limit. If that's not really the limit and there's a bug in some of the software involved in trying to make the loop fs, then it should be fixed... but I'm guessing, as you are, that it's FAT's fault.
>>- I am unable to write on a vfat partition from which my root >> partition was mounted via -o loop. >> >> >Why in heavens name would you want to mount your root partition to a >vfat partition? This is probably a Good Thing (TM). As writing to it on >a VFAT filesystem would cause you to loose all the file permissions. > > I don't quite understand the question. My root partition is formatted ext3 (usually I use reiserfs or xfs) and it's inside a loop file which lives on a vfat partition. Is that bad? I was just trying to use some space on my Windows drive so I could try the beta without nuking my 8.2 install... that would make my wife unhappy. (My 5-year-old, on the other hand, is happy to be a beta tester.) But when the root ext3 partition is mounted from a loop file inside a vfat partition, non-root users can't create files on the vfat partition outside of the loop file. Have fun, -- Aaron Peromsik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----[For thinner oatmeal, add more water.] | Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. ----------------------------------------[For thicker oatmeal, add less water.]
