Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 20:00:51 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Patch] mdmfs currently broken Message-ID: <20030905195552.I9319@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <2484.1062709400@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <2484.1062709400@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20030904182856.GA15220@StefanEsser.FreeBSD.org>, Stefan =?iso-8859- > 1?Q?E=DFer?= writes: > >Seems that mdmfs stopped working recently (probably because > >of GEOM related changes). One possible fix is to label the > >md and newfs the thusly created c partition. > > > >This requires running /sbin/disklabel, which didn't have an > >entry in paths.h. > > > >Any objections against me committing the follwoing fixes to > >-current ? > > Yes, please don't. > > We should not revert to putting BSD labels on everything. > > I'll find the root cause and fix that instead, it's probably > fall-out from my ioctl change. Disk labels are required by the not unused fsck_ffs utility to search for alternate superblocks. Bruce
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