Re: My FS Problem

I have gotten exactly the same problem twice and it was on freshly
formatted FAT disks. I had unly untared the vsta stuff onto them. maybe a
fsck.fat (ala unix) would be good to fix this kind of stuff?

/Erik

On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Andy Valencia wrote:

> [Martin_Doering@mn.man.de writes:]
>
> >Here is the error message from my filesystem problem. It says:
> >syslog: dos (pid 7) emergency: Assertation failed rw.c/165:
> >pack_name: null in extension
>
> Yes, so you have a filename in your root directory which is not a VFAT
> entry, and yet has non-ASCII characters in it. That shouldn't be legal, but
> if things otherwise look sane, you can just disable the ASSERT_DEBUG in
> pack_name in the DOS server, and it'll ignore the problem.
>
> >If you want, I could make some tests (if you tell me which) or you could
> >send me a changed server and I will test it, but I do not understand
> >enough, to change it by myself. I also have no developement environment
> >under VSTa set up (because it is not stable for me yet)
>
> Well, the reason that assert blows the DOS server away is that my
> philosophy (especially with filesystems) has been to do no harm. And when
> the DOS server sees an inexplicable directory entry, it can't be sure that
> any of its other actions are OK, either. I'm assuming you've scandisk'ed
> this filesystem from DOS/Windoze and it's clean?
>
> I can build a version without this assertion, but you should definitely run
> the filesystem with -r (read-only) until it seems like it's OK in general.
> And even then, of course, have backups!
>
> Andy
>
Received on Fri Nov 24 14:36:31 2000