On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 07:08:31PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 10:42:53PM +0200, Juergen Hannken-Illjes wrote:
> > Please don't use kernels with src/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_alloc.c Rev. 1.76.
> > Kernels built with this revision may corrupt your data.
> > 
> > This revision was active from Tue May 25 14:55:47 UTC 2004
> > to Wed May 26 20:33:10 UTC 2004
> 
> If I understand the error, it will only manifest itself if /dev is not an 
> ffs file system.

No, a MFS /tmp is sufficient. Its devvp is type VBLK/VT_MFS and cannot be
converted to an inode.
 
> I think everyone should update, I just wanted to indicate some bounds on 
> the behavior this problem will induce.
> 
> Take care,
> 
> Bill

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Juergen Hannken-Illjes - hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de - TU Braunschweig (Germany)