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Date:      Wed, 26 Feb 1997 20:41:13 -0500 (EST)
From:      Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com>
To:        ponds!freefall.cdrom.com!freebsd-hackers
Subject:   disksort (bad dir/dup alloc research)
Message-ID:  <199702270141.UAA24345@lakes.water.net>

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 While researching the dup alloc/bad dir problem; I thought perhaps
disksort() was loosing something (which would explain why newfs
thinks it's written 0's and no 0's appear on the disk.)

 I noticed that in 2.0, disksort() works (mostly) on cylinder values,
but in 2.0.5 and later this was rewritten to simply use the pblkno
[physical block number] field.

 Just glancing through disksort(), I didn't see anything that would
have caused a I/O to "go missing" - but I plan on adding some 
printf's just to make sure...  [The reason for this is, I believe,
my research indicates that, sometimes, I/O does seem to "go missing."]

	- Dave Rivers -




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