From: Frank Pagliughi <fpagliughi@mindspring.com>
To: ecos-devel@ecos.sourceware.org
Subject: Partition support for FAT file system
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:26:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48593730.1050600@mindspring.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <136E7846-7252-43D7-A7A4-02ED213ADFF8@wh2.tu-dresden.de>
It appears that the FAT file system in eCos works if the "whole disk" is
a single partition, meaning that the FAT Boot Sector is written into the
MBR at sector zero. But if the disk uses a partition table in the MBR,
then the code doesn't understand it, rejects the disk as non-FAT, and
fails the mount. This happens even if the disk contains only a single
partition.
I guess a quick enhancement would be for fatfs_mount() or fatfs_init()
to check the partition table, see if there's at least one entry, and
mount the first one it finds. If there are no partition entries, *then*
check if the MBR is a valid FAT boot sector. This would make most disks
(and compact flash cards) at least partially useful, rather than being
rejected out right.
As a longer term enhancement, supporting multiple partitions would be
nice, but ideas on how to resolve the devs/mtab idea of a disk to
different partitions would be appreciated.
- Frank
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-18 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-18 9:36 Strange buildsystem behaviour Lars Poeschel
2008-06-18 9:53 ` Andrew Lunn
2008-06-18 10:07 ` Lars Poeschel
2008-06-18 10:23 ` Andrew Lunn
2008-06-18 10:58 ` Lars Poeschel
2008-06-18 16:26 ` Frank Pagliughi [this message]
2008-06-18 16:44 ` Partition support for FAT file system Nick Garnett
2008-06-18 17:01 ` Frank Pagliughi
2008-06-18 19:26 ` Nick Garnett
2008-06-20 13:56 ` Frank Pagliughi
2008-06-18 19:28 ` Frank Pagliughi
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