Re: kern/38717: sysinst shouldn't create LFS file systems

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/38717; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/38717: sysinst shouldn't create LFS file systems
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 03:04:58 +0000

 On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 12:24:27AM +0100, Alan Barrett wrote:
  > Twice recently I have noticed files that ended
  > up with random binary content (of exactly the same size as the original
  > file) after a crash.
 
 That's expected behavior in ffs-without-softdep.
 
  > ffs with -o async [...]
 
 ... cannot reasonably be expected to work.
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost