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. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.Baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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