On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:41:21PM -0800, Michael B. Schmitz wrote:
  | Yes, I've reported it before, and someone else has too, but no
  | one ever responded.  I've forgotten the details, but there is
  | a definite file system size where below the size, newfs succeeds
  | and above the size newfs core dumps.  It was pretty small, like
  | 80MB IIRC.

How old is the snapshot?

There is (was?) a toolchain problem with gcc -O2 when compiling newfs
on the alpha, so I added a workaround to the newfs Makefile on 2002/01/06
to compile newfs with gcc -O1, which appeared to fix the problem for me
on my PC164.


Luke.

  | MBS
  | 
  | On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Peter Seebach wrote:
  | 
  | > So, I tried installing (on a PC164) with the 1.5ZA snapshot.  "newfs
  | > /dev/rsd0a" dumps core, and then doesn't even do that because (of course)
  | > the miniature root isn't big enough for a core dump.  Anyone else seen
  | > anything like this?
  | >
  | > -s
  | >

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