In article <9229816.15059@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON) writes:
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>I've mounted my DOS partition using "mount -t msdos /dev/sda1 /dos",
>and most things work fine. But I have had trouble copying some large
>from the Minix file system to the DOS file system. When I try to
>copy my boot image file across, using "/bin/cp /linux-0.97.1 /dos/linux-97.1",
>it goes into an infinite loop. I can't kill the process even with kill -9.
>The hard disk is being continually accessed, and performance on the
>other virtual consoles is terribly slow. "ls -l /dos/linux-97.1" shows
>the file size to be only 3072 bytes.

You are right: older versions of the msdos fs have problems with holes
in files.  The easy solution is to upgrade: 0.98.x shouldn't have this
bug. 

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>Another problem of unknown cause: I tried moving a few large files from
>the dos file system to the minix file system using /bin/mv, and the
>system spontaneously rebooted in the middle of executing the command.
>I don't seem to be having much luck at the moment :-(

This one too seems to be gone: I just copied over 1M+ files with 'mv' to
check it out, and it doesn't happen for me.  Upgrade time. 

                Linus