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From: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: EXT2FS code from -current to -stable
In-Reply-To: <199710071051.UAA15356@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Oct 7, 97 08:51:53 pm"
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 13:50:34 +0200 (MEST)
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In reply to Bruce Evans who wrote:
> >I was wondering - is it possible to merge ext2fs code
> >from -current to -stable, because -stable code is bugged
> >it can not sync while rebooting.
> >I heard it is fixed in current.
> 
> No, the fix in -current introduced worse bugs.  Now bitmaps
> are not written in ext2_sbupdate(), so they are not synced
> by sync() or fsync().  They are synced by unmount() and when
> they are recycled.
> 
> Bruce

Now we are talking about ext2fs, what about the version that OpenBSD
has, its GPL free (yeah!), do they have a fix for this.

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