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Date:      Wed, 07 Aug 2019 16:01:25 -0000
From:      Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
To:        "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>, "O. Hartmann" <ohartmann@walstatt.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: CURRENT: supeblock hash failure - CURRENT wrecking disks
Message-ID:  <201908071610.x77GAGDO043785@chez.mckusick.com>
In-Reply-To: <42457.1565182943@critter.freebsd.dk>

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> To: Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
> cc: "O. Hartmann" <ohartmann@walstatt.org>,
>         freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, mckusick@mckusick=
.com
> Subject: Re: CURRENT: supeblock hash failure - CURRENT wrecking disks
> From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
> --------
> In message <39FB31E6-A8EC-484C-B297-39C19A787E44@gmail.com>, Enji Cooper=
 writes
> :
> =

> There is an "interesting" failure-mechanism when you move a disk
> between 13/current and older systems which do not support ufs-hashes.
> =

> It will be prudent to make 11 and 12 clear the "use hashes" flags
> in the superblocks of all filesystems they mount R/W, to limit
> the amount havoc this will cause when people start playing with 13.
> =

> -- =

> Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
> phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
> FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    =

> Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompeten=
ce.

Both stable-11 and stable-12 clear the "use hashes" flags. If the disk
is moved back to a 13-head system they remain disabled until reenabled
by running fsck in interactive mode and requesting that they be enabled.

	Kirk McKusick



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