On Friday 14 September 2007 14:45:43 Juan RP wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:17:10 +0200
>
> Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger@gmx.de> wrote:
> > dumpfs is correct. scan_ffs was imported from OpenBSD at a time, there
> > was no FFSv2 support in OpenBSD. Now OpenBSD supports FFSv2.
> > => scan_ffs needs re-imported.
>
> What??? scan_ffs(8) shows a possible partition based on data from a
> superblock that it finds. In that case, I'm sure that you had an old
> partition or any other partition created in a disk image or something
> like this.
>
> If you think I'm wrong, try it.
>
> And obviously what you are talking is wrong, I adapted scan_ffs(8)
> from OpenBSD, but also I added support for LFS and FFSv2 with _different_
> blocksizes in 2005!

Oh, then I must have missed the commit messages.
Nontheless, OpenBSD's scan_ffs got some improvements in the last two years,
which are worth to incorporate into NetBSD. Please take a look at it again. :)

Christoph