Bug 114314 - vfat (FAT32) filesystem panic after listing directory
Summary: vfat (FAT32) filesystem panic after listing directory
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 1
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-01-26 15:26 UTC by Walter Trotta
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-09-29 20:00:40 UTC
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Description Walter Trotta 2004-01-26 15:26:54 UTC
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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.

Comment 1 David Lawrence 2004-09-29 20:00:40 UTC
Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of
the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem
persists.

The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, 
and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in
the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/



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