On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Colin Wood wrote:

> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 13:33:09 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
> To: "The Great Mr. Kurtz [David A. Gatwood]" <davagatw@Mars.utm.edU>
> Cc: cwood@ichips.intel.com, ADAMGOOD@delphi.com, port-mac68k@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Annoying panics...
> 
> The Great Mr. Kurtz [David A. Gatwood] wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Colin Wood wrote:
> > 
> > > ADAMGOOD@delphi.com wrote:
> > > 
> > > > When I did a 'df' on it (before 'fsck'ing) it showed that several
> > > > hundred thousand blocks had already been allocated, but I had just 'newfs'ed
> > > > it from the Mac side.  Hmmm . . .  I 'newfs'ed it again from the BSD side,
> > > > and this time 'df' showed that the partition was indeed empty.
> > > 
> > > Kinda strange....did you run 'fsck' and then look, or did you just go and
> > > 'newfs' it?
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > > > Oh, one thing I forgot - in addition to the mount root/not clean problem,
> > > > when I try to use the installer on that disk, and I do an 'ls' it says
> > > > something about bad inodes and dies.  Not a good sign, but that doesn't
> > > > happen once I'm in BSD, so I used 'hfs' to copy all the tarballs to the
> > > > BSD side and installed them from there.
> > > 
> > > Hmmm....bad inode or no such inode?  I get some kind of "no such file"
> > > type error all the time in the Installer, but it doesn't crash...I'd
> > > recommend using hfs anyway, though.  It's _alot_ faster than the
> > > Installer.
> > 
> > I get this too, but only on the partition that I newfs'ed from the NetBSD
> > side.  I think NetBSD's newfs must default to the newer level 2 (I think
> > that's the right number) filesystems, which the installer doesn't support
> > at this time.  (Perhaps the default should be changed until such time as
> > it does?)  If you use newfs, try specifying the filesystem revision level
> > on the command line (man newfs for details).  Of course that's only
> > speculation, there could easily be other reasons, that just seems the most
> > likely guess.
> 
> Ah, yes!  I had forgotten about that.  The level 2 ffs created by newfs is
> incompatible with the installer...something else to go into the FAQ if
> it's not already there ;-)  As for changing the default, since newfs is
> pretty much architecture independent, I'm not too sure they other ports
> would like us messing with their newfs ;-)

I assume mac68k distributes some of the /etc files separately, right?  How
about something like "alias newfs 'newfs -whatever'" (forgive the lousy
syntax) in root's profile or something?  Or another possibility, tweak the
newfs code so the default is changable with a makefile option, then change
the option for mac68k compiles....


Thoughts?
David

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