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- From: bde@runx.oz.au (Bruce Evans)
- Subject: Re: Version 1.6.24b upgrade problems
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.161550.14610@runx.oz.au>
- Organization: RUNX Un*x Timeshare. Sydney, Australia.
- References: <HEIM2.93Jan5163449@schroeder.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> <C0FoC5.I7E@cs.vu.nl> <HEIM.93Jan7115122@spike.peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 16:15:50 GMT
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- In article <HEIM.93Jan7115122@spike.peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> heim@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Gerald Heim) writes:
- >
- >Yes, I may have been wrong. Sorry.
- >But I have found some Programms in there where the patches are larger than
- >the sources (e.g. commands/ic).
-
- Many of the patches are large only because the source has been reformatted.
-
- >Nevertheless I have tried to get 1.6.24b up and running. And I failed.
- >The first problem was building the library. Tsort is still buggy.
-
- Library building is easier using bcc. It has tsort built into the linker.
-
- >It seems to me, that the filesystem format has changed a bit, but I could
- >find no documentation on it.
-
- The old (V1) file system has not changed. The new (V2) file system has
- 32-bit block numbers and inode access and change timestamps. The number
- of inodes is still limited to 32K (or maybe 64K) and file name lengths
- are still limited to 14.
-
- > - Use the available patches for 1.5.10: shared text, virtual consoles,
- > shutdown/reboot, nice ....
- > This will result in a nice, stable and usable system.
-
- You would need to reinstall (port?) shared text and virtual consoles to
- make 1.6 as nice.
- --
- Bruce Evans (bde@runx.oz.au)
-