[ale] mount

[gt1355b at prism.gatech.edu]

On 26 Jul, Robert L Harris wrote:
>> What type of filesystem are you trying to mount?  Have you tried with
>> 2.1.47 (46 is pretty buggy regarding filesystems, not that 47 is
>> perfect)?  How about a more stable 2.1.x (the filesystem code in the
>> current 2.1.x releases is being heavily re-done, so lots of stuff is
>> currently broken)?

> I'm trying to mount vfat filesystems.  I'll try 2.1.47 tonight.  It
> wasn't out the other day...

If I recall correctly, vfat was very broken in 2.1.46.  I don't
remember if it's any better in 2.1.47 (not being a vfat user myself). 
Check http://www.linuxhq.com for patches to fix it  (I'm pretty sure
I've seen some), drop back a couple of levels (2.1.43 was fairly stable
here, though I might have had to patch it), or wait for the filesystem
changes to settle down.  I really doubt mount version is your
problem--that mainly is affected by the new nfs, smb, and stuff like
that.

Oh, make sure you don't try 2.1.44.  It totally hosed one of my
partitions....

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                 gt1355b at prism.gatech.edu