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Date:      Sat, 21 Apr 2001 14:59:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, imp@FreeBSD.org, "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
Subject:   Re: kernel core
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010421145908.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200104211839.f3LIdGC01045@mass.dis.org>

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On 21-Apr-01 Mike Smith wrote:
>> 
>> You need to rebuild fsck and install it and fsck your filesystems.  This is
>> the
>> dirpref changes biting you.  Warner, we probably need an entry in UPDATING
>> for
>> the dirpref changes that warn people to build and install a new fsck before
>> booting a dirpref kernel.
> 
> Er.  This really isn't very good; I can see all sorts of opportunities 
> here for disk migration between -stable and -current systems causing 
> massive headaches.

I agree.

> I assume there's a better fix in the works, so that a "dirpref-touched" 
> disk can be moved back to a pre-dirpref system?

I hope so.  I'm not sure if it is feasible, but it would be nice if the kernel
would do a sanity check on the dirpref values in the superblock and fall back
to defaults if they aren't sane.

-- 

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