nftl and multi page read write support

[Patrick Higgins]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:

> rogelio at evoserve.com said:
> > David - NFTL support is safe with the multipage read-write support. I
> > have a system running on ext2 on nftl and it is stable. 
> 
> Cool - you mean not only does it _not_ break it, but it magically makes it 
> stable too?

Unless you've made some changes to NFTL (you were just verifying that your
DoC2000 changes *didn't* break NFTL, right?) then NFTL still has some
problems.  I'm having trouble finding time to look into the cause, but
while I am able to read and write from a preexisting NFTL partition, I'm
unable to make changes to it.  Using M-Systems' dformat utility from
dosemu makes a single FAT partition.  When I try to use fdisk to toggle it
to a Linux partition, things seem to go normally, but then when I run it
again, the partition still shows up as FAT.  mke2fs also seems to complete
successfully, but doesn't actually make changes.  However, mounting the
FAT partition, touching a few files, unmounting, *rebooting*, and mounting
again shows that the changes were permanent.  I have no idea what's
wrong--but I assume, as David has pointed out, that something is probably
wrong with the block device setup and/or partition table setup.  I'll look
into it when I get the chance.

-Patrick


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