Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:37:30 -0800 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Xin LI <delphij@frontfree.net>, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: mckusick@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] bring incompletely initialized magic to UFS1 Message-ID: <200401271337.30976.wes@softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <20040127065331.43F7611AE7@beastie.frontfree.net> References: <20040127065331.43F7611AE7@beastie.frontfree.net>
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On Monday 26 January 2004 22:53, Xin LI wrote:
> >Submitter-Id: current-users
> >Originator: Xin LI
> >Organization: The FreeBSD Simplified Chinese Project
> >Confidential: no
> >Synopsis: [PATCH] bring incompletely initialized magic to UFS1
> >Severity: non-critical
> >Priority: low
> >Category: bin
> >Class: change-request
> >Release: FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE i386
> >Environment:
>
> System: FreeBSD beastie.frontfree.net 5.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE
> #16: Sat Jan 10 15:24:09 CST 2004
> delphij@beastie.frontfree.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BEASTIE i386
>
> >Description:
>
> The attached is a proposal patch to make it possible to mark UFS1 as
> "incompletely initialized" when newfs(8) did not have it actually
> initialized. To implement this, I have borrowed the "bad UFS2" magic
> number. Please review this patch. Frankly I am not sure if this is
> useful in most circumstances, but a "incomplete" flag is really
> useful for certain needs.
I looks OK to me. I assume you've tested it extensively, correct? I'll
see if I can locate an extra disk for testing and give this a try at
home, then commit it as soon as I've verified it works OK. Thanks for
the input.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com
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