On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Nathan Raymond wrote:

> At 10:02 PM -0400 8/5/99, Allen Briggs wrote:
> 
> > > Endian big-endian magic 11954   time    Sun Jul 25 18:24:45 1999
> > > cylgrp  dynamic inodes  4.2/4.3BSD      fslevel 1
> >
> >I'd bet that fslevel 1 filesystems are not particularly well-tested with
> >the -current code since newfs under -current will create fslevel 3
> >filesystems.

newfs -O will make old fs's.

> >To determine if this is it, I'd unmount /pub, run fsck -f on /pub to
> >ensure that it's OK, remount it to ensure that it's still reporting
> >bogus values.  If all of that behaves as expected, I'd unmount /pub,
> >bite the bullet and try
> >	fsck -T ffs:"-c 2" /pub
> >Assuming that works, remount the filesystem and see if it's still
> >behaving oddly.
> 
> Did all that, still reports the same bogus info.

Can you try an experiment?

I'd appreciate it if you could make a both a newfs -O and a mkfs fs on the
same partition, and send them to me. Here are the steps:

sdXX is the partition you can play with.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsdXX			(zero it out so gzip works)

newfs -O /dev/rsdXX

(If you can, copy down parameters for the fs so we can feed them to
	mkfs)

gzip -9 -c < /dev/rsdXX | gzip -9 -c > newfs.gz.gz  (yes, two gzips)

(that will take a while)

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsdXX

exit to macos & run mkfs

make a filesystem on the partition. Use the parameters from above, if you
were able to copy them.

Go back to NetBSD

repeat the gzip but make it > mkfs.gz.gz

Then mail them to me:

uuencode newfs.gz.gz newfs.gz.gz > newfs.gz.gz.uu
uuencode mkfs.gz.gz  mkfz.gz.gz  > mkfs.gz.gz.uu

mail wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov < newfs.gz.gz.uu
mail wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov < mkfs.gz.gz.uu


Thanks!

Take care,

Bill