Re: Writable Amiga dos file system

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%jocelyn.rhein.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Jun 21, 1998 at 05:30:08AM +0200, Georges Heinesch wrote:
> > It makes writing to netbsd partitions possible but I experienced
> > some problems after using it this way. The safest method AFAIK is
> > still to READ ONLY NetBSD partitions from AmigaOS side and READ ONLY
> > AmigaOS partitions from NetBSD's side.
> 
> I tested BFFS 1.5beta for a while now in writing mode and did not
> encounter any problems, except the NetBSD/fsck reports "MAKING FILE
> SYSTEM CLEAN" after AmigaOS accessed a NetBSD file system in writing.
> 
> Is this normal and/or unavoidable?

Hm... looks like it doesn't know about NetBSD clean flags, which were added
only "recently".

> I also ran the AmigaOS/fsck version (which is included in the BFFS
> 1.5beta archive) after AmigaOS accessed a NetBSD file system in
> writing. It reported a couple of things but no error. My point was
> that it also didn't "fix" the file structure of the NetBSD file
> system, making a subsequent fsck (when NetBSD was started) still
> necessary.
> 
> Can't AmigaOS/fsck fix this inconsistency?

Ask the author... and tell him what inconsistency it was, exactly.

        -is