Re: bin/176746: Document a bug (unusual 2K block media) with

The following reply was made to PR bin/176746; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/176746: Document a bug (unusual 2K block media) with
 src/sbin/fsck_msdosfs/
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 00:26:18 +1100 (EST)

 On Fri, 8 Mar 2013, Julian H. Stacey wrote:

 >> Description:
 > Document a 2K block media bug to src/sbin/fsck_msdosfs/fsck_msdosfs.8
 >
 >> How-To-Repeat:
 > Analysis here
 > http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/txt/sigmatel/#bsd2k
 >
 >> Fix:
 > Apply patch (appended)
 > -----------
 > http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/gen/sbin/fsck_msdosfs/
 >
 > *** 9.1-RELEASE/src/gen/sbin/fsck_msdosfs/fsck_msdosfs.8	Sat Nov 17 09:47:20 2012
 > --- new/src/gen/sbin/fsck_msdosfs/fsck_msdosfs.8	Thu Mar  7 23:28:43 2013
 > ***************
 > *** 121,123 ****
 > --- 121,126 ----
 >  .Nm
 >  utility is
 >  .Ud
 > + .br
 > + Devices with 2K media blocks fail, for analysis & work around see
 > + http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/txt/sigmatel/#bsd2k
 > -----------
 >
 > The real fix will be to write some C.
 > This bug affects at least both FreeBSD & NetBSD.
 > Both were informed to mail lists, links to both archives here
 > http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/txt/sigmatel/#bsd2k
 >
 > If I write (unikely) or hear of patches to fix it, they will first appear here:
 > http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/gen/sbin/fsck_msdosfs/

 This is reported and fixed in PR 153426.

 Bruce
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