Subject: Re: newfs core dumping in 1.5ZA snapshot
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@wasabisystems.com>
From: Jochen Kmietsch <jochen.kmietsch@tu-clausthal.de>
List: port-alpha
Date: 01/22/2002 08:22:34
Hello!

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Luke Mewburn wrote:

>   | Yes, I've reported it before, and someone else has too, but no

Yup.

>   | one ever responded.  I've forgotten the details, but there is
>   | a definite file system size where below the size, newfs succeeds
>   | and above the size newfs core dumps.  It was pretty small, like
>   | 80MB IIRC.

That explains my unsuccessful tries.

> How old is the snapshot?

I tried with the one from last years Dec 21st.

> There is (was?) a toolchain problem with gcc -O2 when compiling newfs
> on the alpha, so I added a workaround to the newfs Makefile on 2002/01/06
> to compile newfs with gcc -O1, which appeared to fix the problem for me
> on my PC164.

Hm, when I find the time again I will give it another try on my 3000/300.

Jochen
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