Date: Tue, 15 Oct 96 08:53:00 PDT From: Duncan Barclay <Duncan.Barclay@pa-consulting.com> To: freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FS breaks when using ft. Message-ID: <3263B89F@SMTPGATE.PA-CONSULTING.COM>
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>> I then tried to reread these (with ft) to / in single user mode and >> with /usr mounted ro. This caused duplicate inodes to be created >> and references to block -1 (as stated from fsck). >You can hardly blame `ft' for this, since it doesn't deal with the >file system directly. It passes everything on to tar, so if your >filesystem is hosed afterwards, this is certainly quite another kind >of bug (in the kernel, or with your hardware). > >-- >cheers, J"org Yes, I suppose I should have said the ft driver _may_ be hosing things. I did realise last night that I was probably contributing to the problem by the way I was fscking filesystems, (after five years using fsck you would think I would know when to mount and unmount...:-( ). I am going to try some more testing over the next week or so with 2.1.5R and try to replicate the problems. Duncan
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