Re: [Freedos-kernel] CRITICAL BUG - crosslinked files - 2039 unusable

2011-05-05 Thread dos386
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Re: [Freedos-kernel] CRITICAL BUG - crosslinked files - 2039 unusable

2011-05-04 Thread Bart Oldeman
On 3 May 2011 03:03, dos386 dos...@gmail.com wrote: Good catch and thanks for the fix! I committed your patch to svn Heh ... excellent ... so my excessive HD trashing http://www.mail-archive.com/freedos-kernel%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg02431.html 1+1/2 years ago was NOT only waste of time ?

Re: [Freedos-kernel] CRITICAL BUG - crosslinked files - 2039 unusable

2011-05-03 Thread Alain Mouette
Does this mean that it has been fixed? Alain Em 03-05-2011 04:03, dos386 escreveu: Good catch and thanks for the fix! I committed your patch to svn Heh ... excellent ... so my excessive HD trashing http://www.mail-archive.com/freedos-kernel%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg02431.html 1+1/2 years

Re: [Freedos-kernel] CRITICAL BUG - crosslinked files - 2039 unusable

2010-01-08 Thread Pat Villani
There is work going on, but noe estimate to completion. I would tend to agree, use 2038 until it is fixed. Pat Project Coordinator On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:03 AM, dos386 dos...@gmail.com wrote: I have prepeared a new FreeDOS distribution for REAL USE in the field Is there anyone working

Re: [Freedos-kernel] CRITICAL BUG - crosslinked files - 2039 unusable

2010-01-07 Thread dos386
Hi 1. No new details to the Crosslink-BUG ... cluster size is 4 KiB :-| Why do you refer to an obsolete mail ? Half of it is not a bug, the other half is... What ??? This is because DIR tells you how much space is used / free. the which you mention, you force a recalculation... I

Re: [Freedos-kernel] CRITICAL BUG - crosslinked files - 2039 unusable

2009-12-19 Thread dos386
Well, the tracker entry is 28 days old, this discussion is 12 days old, and ... this is not the first time I have to whine about the user base of FreeDOS, if such a thing exists at all. At least, this time the BUG got opened by http://sourceforge.net/users/tnavratil/ Tnavratil, not me. So new

Re: [Freedos-kernel] CRITICAL BUG - crosslinked files - 2039 unusable

2009-12-17 Thread dos386
Well, got __STRANGE__ news: 1. No new details to the Crosslink-BUG ... cluster size is 4 KiB :-| 2. Discovered a NEW BUG: - present in both 2038 and 2039 - not critical - possibly related to the Crosslink-BUG (probability not very high ...) - reproductability as ALWAYS :-) Steps to repropduce:

Re: [Freedos-kernel] CRITICAL BUG - crosslinked files - 2039 unusable

2009-12-14 Thread dos386
I'm having a look Thanks :-) how large is your FAT partition exactly? Cca 6 GiB , have to check the other PC ... There is always the GB/GiB confusion... 1 GiB = 2^30 Bytes 1 GB = ??? (don't know don't use) what is the cluster size (I'm looking for potential overflows) 4 or 8 KiB , have

Re: [Freedos-kernel] CRITICAL BUG - crosslinked files - 2039 unusable

2009-12-13 Thread Bart Oldeman
Hi, I'm having a look. But I can't reproduce it so far. So: * how large is your FAT partition exactly? There is always the GB/GiB confusion... * what is the cluster size (I'm looking for potential overflows) * does it happen with plain FreeCOM COPY, XCOPY, or any copy? Bart