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Date:      Sat, 17 Oct 1998 04:17:26 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/newfs newfs.c 
Message-ID:  <22321.908623046@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Oct 1998 15:39:17 %2B1000." <199810170539.PAA02786@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 

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> Wrong.  The type field isn't already set correctly (any previous setting
> according to disktab, etc., is wrong until newfs actually writes a partition.
> The frags info is used by fsck(8) to recover alternate superblocks.  You
> just broke fsck again.  See rev.1.9 for previous breakage, PR2537 for
> problems related to this breakage, and rev.1.22 for the previous fix.

As I already noted, that wasn't a "fix" judging by all the subsequent
failure reports.  It doesn't do much good for fsck to work if the user
can't even install the OS in the first place.  rev 1.22 was a pessimisation
from a functionality standpoint and a most unwelcome discovery just 4
hours after the release went out.  Bah.

- Jordan

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