From owner-cvs-all Sat Mar 14 02:15:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA14908 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 02:15:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA14895; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 02:15:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA04125; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 02:12:34 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199803141012.CAA04125@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Paul Traina , jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dumb question about fstab and 226 beta In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 14 Mar 1998 02:02:14 PST." <6432.889869734@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 02:12:34 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > Was this intentional? If not, can we fix this before 226 ships? > > The general change was intentional but not the unwonted side-effects. > Mike Smith is still working on the more robust solution as we speak > and it's certainly my expectation that we'll have this hammered out > well before 2.2.6 ships. The "yardstick" we're using for this is > getting a freshly installed 2.2.5 to upgrade to 2.2.6 without any > such problems. Exactly. And I expect that if I don't have a solution shortly, I'll have far too many of the wrong sort of bruises. 8( There's one problem I *still* can't reproduce, however the fix for "really dedicated" disks is going in in just a few minutes - I have booted everything I can get my hands on and can't find a breaking point. If anyone is seeing the "root filesystem always needs fscking" problem, I'd really like any input you can offer - I'm at a total loss to work out what's going on there. More significantly, I just can't reproduce it. 8( -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message