Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 20:04:06 +0300 (EET DST) From: Stefan Parvu <sparvu@cc.hut.fi> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates questions Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10106212003340.26209-100000@alpha.hut.fi> In-Reply-To: <20010621114210.T4543@sneakerz.org>
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Thank you all guys. I've got the picture. stefan On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:42:10 -0500 > From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org> > To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> > Cc: Stefan Parvu <sparvu@cc.hut.fi>, fs@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: softupdates questions > > * Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> [010621 05:34] wrote: > > Stefan Parvu <sparvu@cc.hut.fi> writes: > > > > > 3. There is some concern about to integrate dirpref to FreeBSD . Why is > > > this ? Are any specific changes to fsck or other tools regarding dirpref ? > > > > It was integrated in early April. I can't remember there being any > > controversy over it. > > old fsck + new dirpref == spammed superblock, meaning that some fields > required by the new dirpref would be zero'd after fsck, this would > cause a divide by zero fault in the kernel. > > there was a patch added to recognize spammed dirpref values and > reinit them, so this is no longer a problem. > > -Alfred > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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