Re: mips64 and GCC 5

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 6 Oct 2016, Michael wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Oct 2016 10:49:21 -0500 (CDT)
> "John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > The changes to ext2fs have made it unstable.  It mostly works, but is
> > likely to corrupt the filesystem.  I don't know if this is cross-platform
> > or is only manifesting on mips64(el) as I don't have any other machines
> > using ext2fs.  This is not related to GCC 5.
> 
> I've seen that too - gdium's PMON loads the kernel from an 2xt2fs partition.
> Mine got corrupted somehow so I newfs-ed it, put the kernel in, fiddled
> with it until PMON was happy, booted from it -> kernel complains about
> an invalid superblock, fsck says it can't fix it, yet PMON still boots
> from it.
> I'm not using ext2fs on other hardware so I don't know if it's
> MIPS-specific, I kinda doubt it though.

See my other thread where I first thought it was an 'ftp' client issue:

  http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-evbmips/2016/09/10/msg000285.html

and where it seems to be an ext2fs issue:

  http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-evbmips/2016/09/14/msg000293.html

Perhaps the issue should be brought up on other lists?

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