Hello!

> >My DS 3100 running current from 14.04.1998 had a lockup while I did
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> i don't recall anything like this on current-users on other platforms
> so I'm guessing its' pmax-speecific.   

Maybe, but it was not that often the case that I actually need fsck.
Normaly my machines are very stable and don't panic that way. So maybe
others havn't run inot this yet.

> How recent is your fsck_ffs binary? Is it 1.3, 1.3.1, or -current?

As I already wrote its current. I explicitly rebuild fsck and fsck_ffs
with -g from those sources to get more out of the core via gdb.

Greets
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