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From: dtang@virtual.harvard.edu (Diane Tang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: MSDOS filesystem under BSDI 2.0
Date: 24 Oct 1995 22:04:27 GMT
Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University
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Originator: dtang@virtual

I'm trying to run some benchmarks on an msdos filesystem under BSDI 2.0.
Some information:
-- formatted scsi disk (adaptec scsi controller, hp 402 MB disk)
	under DOS (probably 5.0?  6.0?) to be entire disk
-- used disksetup to map the DOS partition to /dev/sd0d so that
	I could mount it
-- mounted the partition using "mount -t msdos /dev/sd0d /mnt"
-- the benchmarks are written in C, use standard system calls such asa
	read, write, creat, etc., and I changed the names so that
	they would fit into the 8/3 filenaming convention.

The problem:
-- it keeps crashing with a "getblk: stray size" error.

Anyone know how I can fix this problem / make it go away?
Is there a patch or anything like that?

Thanks!
--Diane
dtang@eecs.harvard.edu