cvs commit: src/sys/fs/msdosfs msdosfs_vfsops.c

[Mike Silbersack]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, John Baldwin wrote:

> Windows formatted iPod's have a fake DOS BPB at the start of their disk.
> If you tried to mount it as a msdos filesystem before this change, the
> kernel would panic.  Now you get EINVAL.  If you stick GEOM_APPLE in your
> kernel, then the apple label at the start of the disk is recognized, and
> you can mount /dev/da0s2 as a msdos filesystem.
>
> John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/

Ah ha!  An excuse to ask for an iPod on the donations page!

I'm going to have to think of a similar excuse for a GeForce FX. :)

Mike "Silby" Silbersack