From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 22 04:23:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D95B16A4B3 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 04:23:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.btinet.net (mail.gnda.com [216.235.160.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 03C0A43FB1 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 04:23:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pmes@btinet.net) Received: (qmail 15 invoked by uid 59997); 22 Oct 2003 11:23:13 -0000 Received: from pmes@btinet.net by smtp2 by uid 59994 with qmail-scanner-1.15 (uvscan: v4.1.00/v4247. spamassassin: 2.43. Clear:. Processed in 0.274538 secs); 22 Oct 2003 11:23:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO btinet.net) (209.62.224.243) by smtp2.btinet.net with SMTP; 22 Oct 2003 11:23:12 -0000 Message-ID: <3F9668A8.90702@btinet.net> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 06:23:20 -0500 From: Peter Schultz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031020 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Strick References: <200310221014.h9MAEX3V001280@ice.nodomain> In-Reply-To: <200310221014.h9MAEX3V001280@ice.nodomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UFS file system problem in either stable or current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:23:20 -0000 Dan Strick wrote: > There seems to be an inconsistency between release 4.9-RC and 5.1 ufs > support. If I fsck the same ufs (type 1 of course) file system on > both releases, each claims that the other has left incorrect > summary data in the superblock. Presumably only one can be correct. > I just don't know which to blame. > > I couldn't find a FreeBSD problem report about bad summary data. > I will submit one, but since FreeBSD 4.9 is about to be released, > someone might like to check this out. > > I happen to have multiple FreeBSD operating systems installed on > the same computer. This might also be an issue if you move an > external disk between computers. I don't know if the problem shows > up on all file systems. It seems to happen on all the half dozen > or so of the file systems that my 4.9-RCx and 5.1 systems share. > There is no problem AFAIK, you just have to fsck with the matching executable. A lot has changed with FreeBSD 5, spend some time with the -current archive and you will learn more. I'm sure you noticed how your findings are consistently inconsistent. Pete...