On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 02:41:28PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> At the moment newfs only writes the part of the disk that contains
> the red tape for the new filesystem.  Unfortunately this doesn't
> guarantee that it will overwrite the red tape from an older filesystem.
> 
> In particular it is important that the old superblock and the first
> alternate (which is in one of a few 'well known' locations is invalidated.
> Failure to do so can lead the the wrong fsck being run, or the wrong
> filesystem type being mounted.

I agree. This issue crossed my mind when I integrated the UFS2 code,
but I forgot about it. Thanks for picking it up.

- Frank

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Frank van der Linden                                            fvdl@netbsd.org
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