Re: ufs fs at 2.2.x and 2.4.x

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 18 2000 - 18:09:39 EDT

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    On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Elmer Joandi wrote:

    > 1. First - it mounted a ufs but showed nothing.... long time to find the
    > 44bsd senseless
    > option.

    Sigh... Would you prefer six-seven fs types? You see, 4.4 UFS != Slowlaris
    UFS. And no, FreeBSD implementation is not happy with it either.

    > 2. ok, linux up&running, samba and MS Windows Nx100MB profiles copying by few
    > users.
    > After a while - MS tells me : media is read-only.... what a hell.
    > going to command line - the partition IS now readonly....

    Internal error in driver => remount read-only (alternatives: warn and keep
    going; just panic). How about syslog?

    > 3. -o remount,rw : disk full (not really)

    ... well, doh - basically you've been in panic() situation and you wonder
    that part of kernel that was responsible is for fsckup is, well, fscked
    up?

    > It would be nice, if for 2.4 there would be mandatory printk for expermiental

    printk is a overkill, but config _does_ keep r/w UFS under "exeprimental"
    (2.4 at least)

    > and non-production modules.
    > So after a year someone would not try to use that stuff on production system.

    Well, the better way is to fix the bloody thing...

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