From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 19 09:54:24 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA29312 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 09:54:24 -0700 Received: from rwwa.com (rwwa.com [198.115.177.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA29304 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 09:54:22 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rwwa.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA04509 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 12:55:29 -0400 Message-Id: <199506191655.MAA04509@rwwa.com> X-Authentication-Warning: rwwa.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.5.3 12/28/94 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Update: 2.0.5 scrambled filesystems. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jun 1995 07:34:33 PDT." <199506191434.HAA02241@corbin.Root.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 12:55:29 -0400 From: Robert Withrow Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Um, well, if we knew it was *that* broken, I suppose. I don't really know > why it is clobbering things, but a quick guess would be that it is using > old vnodes that have been reclaimed...but I really have no idea. We've known > that msdosfs is broken for sometime - but not in this particular way. "Oh > well". :-) For this who may want to work around this in the interim (until there is a fix (;-)), I found that if I turn off LBA mode and reload the dos partition, (with all the restrictions that implies), the problem *does not* occur. [Perhaps the new slicing code is not quite--emmm--robust yet?] I would have done that sooner, but I wanted to be relatively sure that the system would run 2.0.5 incase I wanted to return it to the dealer... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Withrow, Tel: +1 617 598 4480, Fax: +1 617 598 4430 Net: witr@rwwa.COM R.W. Withrow Associates, 319 Lynnway Suite 201, Lynn MA 01901 USA