From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040121 Firebird/0.8.0+ Description of problem: Adding, modifying and removing files successful until performing a full directory listing (i.e. 'ls -al' or via a GUI). From that moment on, all attempts to modify files or directories in the filesystem receive an error indicating the filesystem is read-only and a filesystem panic is logged. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Mount FAT32 filesystem as vfat using any combination of options to change ownership, permissions, etc. 2. Perform a listing of a directory in the mounted filesystem. 3. Attempt to write to the filesystem (add or modify a file). Actual Results: A filesystem panic and an error indicating the filesystem is read-only. Expected Results: Successful write to filesystem. Additional info: FAT32 filesystems has been mounted using 'rw,user,uid=500,gid=500' options. Others have been tried as well, such as 'umask=0'. The following appears in the messages log for every attempt to modify a file or directory after the intial directory listing: Jan 26 10:16:04 ojo kernel: Filesystem panic (dev 03:07). Jan 26 10:16:04 ojo kernel: FAT error Jan 26 10:16:04 ojo kernel: File system has been set read-only Jan 26 10:16:04 ojo kernel: Directory 1245: bad FAT No errors occured while the filesystems were mounted under RedHat Linux 8.0. The filesystems were untouched during the Fedora installation.
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