Hi Martin, > The question before that would be whether anyone has a comprehensive list > of those tools, cause I think there are quite many. Well at least those > from bigger vendors should be tested I think. Paragon, Symantec, ... Do you happen to have any of those handy to test with? > And has it been tested with Linux tools such as fsck.msdos, fsck.vfat, > parted and partimage? I think it probably has not much effect on parted and > partimage, but what about the fscks? I tested it with dosfstools (which provides the fsck.vfat on Linux distros) and with mtools. Both required patches to work correctly. I have submitted both patches to the maintainers of those packages. The patch to dosfstools makes it skip the invalid 8.3 entries, just as windows chkdsk does. The patch is here: http://samba.org/tridge/dosfstools.patch1 The patch to mtools is partly cosmetic, and partly to fix a bug in the VFAT checksum routine. The code in mtools incorrectly treated a nul byte as special in 8.3 directory entries. The patch is here: http://samba.org/tridge/mtools.patch1 > Thus even when the patch only changes the values stored for new - or > rewritten? - files it actively corrupts the meta consistency of the whole > filesystem. To me it is like inserting a defective inode into a consistent > Linux filesystem. If the windows implementation is taken as the reference implementation then the files are not considered defective. The windows chkdsk will (with a small probability) complain of duplicates, but it doesn't complain about the entries being defective in any other way. > I don't believe that Microsoft is still providing updates for Win98. But I > think Windows 2000 might still be in use - I for example have a Win 2000 > installation on my ThinkPad T23, although I didn't boot it for about a > year or so. Has it been tested against Windows 2000? I digged for the mail > where you said something about against which Windows versions you tested, > but I didn't find it anymore. I haven't tested against w2k yet. I'll need to dig through my old MSDN CD stack and see if I can find a w2k CD to test with. It's no longer offered on current MSDN subscriptions. Cheers, Tridge -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
