Re: mdmfs: newfs exited with error code 36

I can confirm this on i386, and sparc also.
This is a semi-anoying hickup for those who wish to make tiny root-msf
images for a soekris boards, or nfs diskless, and/or mfs-root floppies,
etc.
I belive PHK is/was looking for the root cause of this, which was a thread
that had something to do with bsdlabel's, or not.

Anyways, here was that thread:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-September/009979.html


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Thorsten Greiner wrote:
> * Deiter Alexandr Valerievich <tiamat_at_komi.mts.ru> [2003-09-14 22:10]:
>
>>mdmfs: newfs exited with error code 36
>
>
> This error seems to be generic, I see it on i386 too. I usually
> mount /tmp with the following entry from fstab:
>
>     md /tmp mfs rw,-s250m 2 0
>
> This gives the newfs error mentioned above. Doing the steps by hand
> I get:
>
> # mdconfig -a -t swap -s 256m
> md4
> # newfs /dev/md4
> /dev/md4: 256.0MB (524288 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 4096
>         using 4 cylinder groups of 64.02MB, 4097 blks, 4160 inodes.
> super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
>  160, 131264, 262368, 393472
> newfs: wtfs: 4096 bytes at sector 192: Bad address
>
>
> Regards
>
>         -Thorsten
>