Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 23:20:00 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: Duncan.Barclay@pa-consulting.com (Duncan Barclay) Subject: Re: FS breaks when using ft. Message-ID: <199610142120.XAA08165@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <32626C27@SMTPGATE.PA-CONSULTING.COM> from Duncan Barclay at "Oct 14, 96 09:12:00 am"
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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. ;-)
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