Re: VM images for 12.0-CURRENT showing checksum failed messages

On Wednesday, October 18, 2017 03:01:55 PM Glen Barber wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 07:49:00AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Tuesday, October 17, 2017 11:57:44 AM David Boyd wrote:
> > > The FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20171012-r324542.vmdk image displays
> > > many checksum failed messages when booted. (see attachment).
> > > 
> > > I think this started about 20170925.
> > > 
> > > I have VirtualBox VM's running 10.4-STABLE, 11.1-STABLE and 12.0-
> > > CURRENT.
> > > 
> > > Only the 12.0-CURRENT image exhibits this behavior.
> > > 
> > > This is easily fixed by "fsck -y /" in single-user mode during the boot
> > > process.
> > > 
> > > I can test any updates at almost any time.
> > 
> > I wonder if the tool creating the snapshot images wasn't updated to generate
> > cg checksums when creating the initial filesystem.  Glen, do you know which
> > tool (makefs or something else?) is used to generate the UFS filesystem
> > in VM images for snapshots?  (In this case it appears to be a .vmdk image)
> > 
> 
> mkimg(1) is used.

Does makefs generate the UFS image fed into mkimg or does mkimg generate the
UFS partition itself?

-- 
John Baldwin