From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 21 15: 1:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49E0337B424; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:01:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from foo.osd.bsdi.com (root@foo.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.137]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f3LM1BK66851; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:01:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by foo.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f3LLx9Y67583; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 14:59:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200104211839.f3LIdGC01045@mass.dis.org> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 14:59:08 -0700 (PDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: kernel core Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, imp@FreeBSD.org, "David W. Chapman Jr." Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- 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