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Date:      Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:35:30 +0100
From:      Johan Karlsson <johan@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kirk McKusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/df df.c src/sys/kern syscalls.master vfs_bio.c vfs_cluster.c vfs_syscalls.c src/sys/sys mount.h src/sys/ufs/ffs ffs_vfsops.c
Message-ID:  <20031112083530.GB61125@numeri.campus.luth.se>
In-Reply-To: <200311120801.hAC81ea1053948@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200311120801.hAC81ea1053948@repoman.freebsd.org>

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Hi


On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 00:01 (-0800) +0000, Kirk McKusick wrote:
> mckusick    2003/11/12 00:01:40 PST
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     bin/df               df.c 
>     sys/kern             syscalls.master vfs_bio.c vfs_cluster.c 
>                          vfs_syscalls.c 
>     sys/sys              mount.h 
>     sys/ufs/ffs          ffs_vfsops.c 
>   Log:
>   Update the statfs structure with 64-bit fields to allow
>   accurate reporting of multi-terabyte filesystem sizes.
>   
>   You should build and boot a new kernel BEFORE doing a `make world'
>   as the new kernel will know about binaries using the old statfs
>   structure, but an old kernel will not know about the new system
>   calls that support the new statfs structure. Running an old kernel
>   after a `make world' will cause programs such as `df' that do a
>   statfs system call to fail with a bad system call.

Can you also make a note in src/UPDATING as weel, please.

/Johan K

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Johan Karlsson		mailto:johan@FreeBSD.org



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