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- Subject: Re: Alignment
- Date: Sat, 16 Jul 94 19:52:38 CDT
- From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>
- In-Reply-To: <m0qOUWr-0004q4C@uss.lonestar.org>; from "Evan Langlois" at Jul 14, 94 12:25 pm
- Message-Id: <9407161752.AA00181@jelal.north.de>
-
- Evan Langlois writes:
-
- > First, sorry if I shouldn't be posting to the net from this account.
-
- just set Reply-To: if you want replies go to another address automagically...
-
- >...
- > Also, MINIX.XFS is still acting weird. I can't say if addroottimeout is
- > at fault or if MINIX.XFS PL10 is buggy, or MINIX just gets messed up when
- > you have ZONE 0 COUNT 1 (whatever that means. Minix reports the error and
- > fsck CANNOT fix it. It trashed a floppy too - says it cannot access large
- > partition A: When I try to fsck: it I get set_size BUS ERROR and that's
- > it.
-
- hmm get_size... minit -t also sometimes shows me a bad size unless i
- set -e, fsck doesn't seem bothered for me but maybe yours wants an -e too?
- (just guessing, stephen is this a known effect?)
-
- > Its a pain since every so often my files will grow blocks of nulls
- > where the data should be, and if I then delete that file, I get errors
- > about removing an already free zone .. or already free inode or something.
-
- *urrgh* :) that fs really wants fsck'd...
-
- > Any file I modify on my Minix partition may actually be crunched. This
- > has been happeneing ever since I changed to Mint 1.10 (which had addrootimeout)
- > but I switch to PL10 of Minix xfs before that, so I think it has to do with
- > addrootimeout. Can I switch back to PL9 without losing data?
-
- i thinks so, except for symlinks.
-
- > Or compile
- > PL10 to use the update daemon again?
-
- easy: (and 2 other things)
-
- diff -urw ./makefile ../10/makefile
- --- ./makefile Sat May 14 03:15:46 1994
- +++ ../10/makefile Mon May 30 03:35:38 1994
- @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
- $(CC) -s -o mount.ttp $(CFLAGS) mount.c -liio16
-
- flist.ttp: flist.c
- - $(CC) -s -o flist.c $(CFLAGS) flist.c -liio16
- + $(CC) -s -o flist.ttp $(CFLAGS) flist.c -liio16
-
- tinyxhdi.o: minixfs/tinyxhdi.c
- $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -DTINY_XHDI -c minixfs/tinyxhdi.c
- diff -urw ./minixfs/hdio.c ../10/minixfs/hdio.c
- --- ./minixfs/hdio.c Sat May 14 01:35:22 1994
- +++ ../10/minixfs/hdio.c Mon May 30 03:27:18 1994
- @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
- "Unrecognised partition id", /* 9 */
- "XHInqTarget failed", /* 10 */
- "Unsupported physical sector size", /* 11 */
- -"Invalid partition start (zero BPB?)" /* 12 */
- +"Invalid partition start (zero BPB?)", /* 12 */
- "ICD software too old to fix", /* 13 */
- /* These are from set_lrecno */
- "Memory allocation failure", /* 14 */
-
- and ofcourse i'm using this :)
-
- diff -urw ./minixfs/main.c ../10/minixfs/main.c
- --- ./minixfs/main.c Sun May 8 15:35:00 1994
- +++ ../10/minixfs/main.c Mon May 30 00:43:34 1994
- @@ -123,8 +123,10 @@
- {
- BASEPAGE *b;
-
- +#if 0
- if(Addroottimeout) Addroottimeout(sync_time*1000l,t_sync,0);
- else
- +#endif
- {
- b = (BASEPAGE *)p_exec(5, 0L, "", 0L); /* create a basepage */
-
- > Before Minix was my most stable
- > partition, now its the worst!
-
- strange, mine is not less stable than pl9... maybe gcc 2.4 broke it?
- who knows, it also broke elvis...
-
- hope it helps
- Juergen
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