On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 05:17:19PM -0700, Roy Bixler wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 05:30:41PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 05:52:51PM -0700, Roy Bixler wrote:
> > > > Did the kernel print some error message in dmesg or /var/log/messages ?
> > > 
> > > I just tried again and found that there are no "dmesg" messages when
> > > doing a failed "newfs" command.  To further rule out hardware
> > > problems, I did "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd0b bs=8k" under NetBSD and
> > > "e2fsck -cc /dev/sda2" under Linux.  Both were successful.
> > 
> > Could you try using the 2.1 kernel but the 2.0.2 newfs binary,
> 
> "newfs" still fails.
> 
> > and 2.1 newfs binary with 2.0.2 kernel ?
> >
> > As you seem to imply that this happens since your 2.1 upgrade,
> > this would allow to check if it's kernel or userland related
> 
> As I suspected it might, this works.  After all, my trouble started
> with unpacking some files, so I figured it must be a kernel issue.
> 
> > (the
> > 2.0.2 kernel should run without much trouble a 2.1 userland, as I don't
> > think there was major interface changes in syscalls between 2.0 and 2.1)
> 
> I hope you're right.  I intend to try that.


One info I didn't find in your mails: What disk and controller are you
using ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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