From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 14 15:27:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA00718 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 15:27:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA00696 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 15:27:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA19181; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 00:25:50 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA23068; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 00:25:48 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.6/8.6.9) id XAA08165; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 23:20:00 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610142120.XAA08165@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: FS breaks when using ft. To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 23:20:00 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: Duncan.Barclay@pa-consulting.com (Duncan Barclay) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <32626C27@SMTPGATE.PA-CONSULTING.COM> from Duncan Barclay at "Oct 14, 96 09:12:00 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Duncan Barclay wrote: > I then tried to reread these (with ft) to / in single user mode and > with /usr mounted ro. This caused duplicate inodes to be created > and references to block -1 (as stated from fsck). You can hardly blame `ft' for this, since it doesn't deal with the file system directly. It passes everything on to tar, so if your filesystem is hosed afterwards, this is certainly quite another kind of bug (in the kernel, or with your hardware). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)