On Wed, 7 May 2003, Doug Barton wrote: > Thanks for the historical perspective. I am not sure how big of a problem > my situation is, since it will only apply to people trying to run a > releng_4 fsck on a ufs2 filesystem under the special circumstances you > described. It will also affect people who try to mount a UFS2 filesystem in 4.x, as is stated in the PR, and probably it will affect every RELENG_4 program that tries to read a (UFS1) superblock. > However, if it's something we can prevent with relative ease, I > think it's worthwhile to do so. No sense loading the foot-shooting gun > with more bullets than absolutely necessary. That's true of course. I'm not sure about the necessity of such a fix either, but OTOH, I would expect newfs to really wipe everything. regards, le -- Lukas Ertl eMail: l.ertl_at_univie.ac.at UNIX-Systemadministrator Tel.: (+43 1) 4277-14073 Zentraler Informatikdienst (ZID) Fax.: (+43 1) 4277-9140 der Universität Wien http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/Received on Wed May 07 2003 - 22:09:27 UTC
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