On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> Try to reproduce the problem after having run fdisk (if it is
> applicable, still don't know your platform, arghhh), disklabel and
> newfs. If you can still reproduce the problem, I'll put this on my
> TODO list, but not very high.
OK, you got me curious. I tried to reproduce your problem on a
-current system using a sparse svnd image of 250G, I don't have a 250G disk.
I could not reproduce your problem. This might be well be because I made
some fixes to newfs that went into 3.7.
This clearly shows that patform and version info is needed in bug reports.
But actually this post is a call for donations.
My work to fix the userland disk utilities (fdisk, disklabel, newfs)
to work properly on large file systems always has been handicapped
because I do not have very large disks. I think I managed to make all
legal block and fragment size combinations work in 3.7, but I always
have to resort to svnd tricks to test my stuff. Now as you all know
testing using a "simulation" always has the chanche of hiding real
bugs or introducing problems that would not have occurred using the
real thing, and so introducing noise in the test results.
So if some kind persons are willing to donate some large disks (say >
150G), I'd be very happy. Ideally I want to be able to create 1TB file
systems, the limit of UFS1. I do not need a single disk that large,
since I can use ccd(4). I can use both IDE and SCSI disks. I do not
have a mortherboard that has SATA.
Please contact me privately if you have someting to offer. I live in
the Netherlands.
Note: to avoid any misunderstanding: this is NOT a promise to work on
UFS2 support. Since I'm almost 100% a userland hacker, this is out of
my league.
-Otto
