Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:42:10 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Stefan Parvu <sparvu@cc.hut.fi>, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates questions Message-ID: <20010621114210.T4543@sneakerz.org> In-Reply-To: <xzphexayvdz.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 12:34:00PM %2B0200 References: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10106211141420.27742-100000@alpha.hut.fi> <xzphexayvdz.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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* Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> [010621 05:34] wrote: > Stefan Parvu <sparvu@cc.hut.fi> writes: > > > 3. There is some concern about to integrate dirpref to FreeBSD . Why is > > this ? Are any specific changes to fsck or other tools regarding dirpref ? > > It was integrated in early April. I can't remember there being any > controversy over it. old fsck + new dirpref == spammed superblock, meaning that some fields required by the new dirpref would be zero'd after fsck, this would cause a divide by zero fault in the kernel. there was a patch added to recognize spammed dirpref values and reinit them, so this is no longer a problem. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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