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A kernel without buffer heads

Posted May 1, 2023 19:31 UTC (Mon) by flussence (guest, #85566)
Parent article: A kernel without buffer heads

Oh! From that list of affected filesystems it looks like I could try out these patches on my desktop for fun… it would have to use FUSE instead for writing to the ESP but that mountpoint doesn't exactly need to win any races. (And honestly, I'm tired of being reminded DOS codepages exist when tweaking .config)

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A kernel without buffer heads

Posted May 2, 2023 16:52 UTC (Tue) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link] (3 responses)

90s tools for 90s filesystems: might as well use mtools ;-)

A kernel without buffer heads

Posted May 3, 2023 7:58 UTC (Wed) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link] (2 responses)

I don't think mtools will work for the EFI partition! Not even sure about fuse?

A kernel without buffer heads

Posted May 3, 2023 9:04 UTC (Wed) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link] (1 responses)

mtools ought to work just fine? It's a standard fat16 partition with long filename support, you could probably mount it under Windows 95 if you could deal with GPT.

A kernel without buffer heads

Posted May 6, 2023 11:50 UTC (Sat) by Hello71 (guest, #103412) [Link]

actually, most Linux distros/tools use mtools to build the EFI partition without root: https://github.com/search?q=%2F%5Cbmcopy%5Cb.*EFI%2F&..., https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=%5Cbmcopy%5Cb.*EFI...