On 21-Apr-01 Mike Smith wrote:
>>
>> You need to rebuild fsck and install it and fsck your filesystems. This is
>> the
>> dirpref changes biting you. Warner, we probably need an entry in UPDATING
>> for
>> the dirpref changes that warn people to build and install a new fsck before
>> booting a dirpref kernel.
>
> Er. This really isn't very good; I can see all sorts of opportunities
> here for disk migration between -stable and -current systems causing
> massive headaches.
I agree.
> I assume there's a better fix in the works, so that a "dirpref-touched"
> disk can be moved back to a pre-dirpref system?
I hope so. I'm not sure if it is feasible, but it would be nice if the kernel
would do a sanity check on the dirpref values in the superblock and fall back
to defaults if they aren't sane.
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