Subject: Re: UFS2 problem?
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
From: Frank Kardel <kardel@acm.org>
List: current-users
Date: 04/06/2003 22:05:33
On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 06:43:19PM +0200, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> There was a time window during which the sequence:
> 
> 	* boot new kernel, write fs
> 	* boot old kernel OR use old fsck
> 	* boot new kernel
> 
> ..would get the block counts wrong, possibly creating trouble.
> 
> I've fixed this problem in sys/ufs/ffs_vfsops.c yesterday, I
> suggest using a kernel with that fix. There's still a potential
> problem with new fsck and an old kernel, I'll fix that shortly.
Probably i picked up an on fsck during the phase with the ext2fs
panic before i could upgrade to the new user-land.

Thanks for working constantly at this.

Frank