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- >>>>> "mehlhaff" == 'Evil' ERic Mehlhaff <mehlhaff@ocf.Berkeley.EDU> writes:
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- Eric> This is where things broke down. I was using the
- Eric> vmunix.713 kernal, and it refused to newfs. newfs would
- Eric> fail with "ioctl:(GDINFO) invalid argument.", and fail
- Eric> completely. I rebooted and ran with vmunix.709 and had a
- Eric> little more success with newfs -- it'd generate a filesystem
- Eric> and then fail with "ioctl(WDINFO): invalid argument". Has
- Eric> anyone been checking the new kernals to see how they've been
- Eric> breaking thses things.
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- I knew this was going to happen :-( My contribution to 713 was support
- for non-BSD partitions (i.e. just raw IO, no FS or such) and in order
- to have these, the sizeof(truct disklabel) had to change. Very few programs
- depend on this, but newfs is one of them (another one is disklabel).
- I wrote a little note about this, but maybe too obsure, in my mail to
- MTK. Now, I don't blame him, he's been working overtime ALOT to get
- this release out. What needs to be done is that someone with source
- online compiles newfs and disklabel and puts them in bin-newest on
- ftp.eunet.ch. BTW, there may be other utilities that fail due to this,
- if so they need recompilation as well. The key is that ioctl(GDINFO)
- says invalid argument. Markus, will you compile newfs & disklabel?
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- Niklas
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