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  1. Bug #47215
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 47215

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Christian Convey (christian-convey) wrote : Re: [Bug 47215] Re: fsck.vfat hangs, eats CPU on problematic file

May as well close my bug - we don't really have a way of making
progress on it even if it's not fixed :(

On 12/18/06, StefanPotyra <email address hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this might be a duplicate of #62831, not sure though. At least the code
> in question that's near the check of file size vs. cluster chain length
> contained an integer overflow (very large files affected only).
>
> Too sad you don't have the file any longer, so that you could test my
> proposed fix. Would you mind if I close that bug, once the fix for bug
> #62831 is uploaded?
>
> Cheers,
> Stefan.
>
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> fsck.vfat hangs, eats CPU on problematic file
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/47215
>