On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 02:18, Michael Schmitz
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 20:50, Michael Schmitz
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> The only patch that has been missed, but may be relevant for Atari still:
>>>
>>> 16 bit FAT default for GEMDOS:
>>>
>>> --- linux-m68k-git/linux-m68k/fs/fat/inode.c 2010-11-10
>>> 19:40:40.131506952 +1300
>>> +++ linux-2.6-2.6.37/debian/build/source_m68k_none/fs/fat/inode.c
>>> 2011-01-17 20:18:44.484006839 +1300
>>> @@ -923,10 +923,10 @@
>>> {Opt_err_cont, "errors=continue"},
>>> {Opt_err_panic, "errors=panic"},
>>> {Opt_err_ro, "errors=remount-ro"},
>>> + {Opt_discard, "discard"},
>>> {Opt_atari_yes, "atari=yes"},
>>> {Opt_atari_yes, "atari"},
>>> {Opt_atari_no, "atari=no"},
>>> - {Opt_discard, "discard"},
>>> {Opt_obsolate, "conv=binary"},
>>> {Opt_obsolate, "conv=text"},
>>> {Opt_obsolate, "conv=auto"},
>>
>> The order of the options shouldn't matter. Due to historical reasons,
>> it's different
>> on master and m68k-queue.
>
> I thought the 'discard' marks the start of no longer used options
> (i.e. option processing stops at discard). My bad.
You got me, I never looked at it that way ;-)
No, it comes from commit 681142f9211b23e6aa2984259d38b76d7bdc05a8
("fat: make discard a mount option")
>>> I'd suggest I first test that this option is still required - will
>>> have to sacrifice a spare SCSI disk for that.
>>
>> I think there was a half consensus or so that we still need it, but
>> not enough to
>> put some weight behind it ;-)
>
> Given that I could not even remember what it was that I had to do to
> the FAT code to get it to what it does now, we best leave it at that.
> Schroedingers cat, and all that :-)
commit cc9c5fc236c0d02cae44c2fbcc8ffa3ae5e517b6 ("Atari FAT updates")
more or less summarizes it. It's the logic which decides whether the FAT is
16-bit or 12-bit.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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