c...@chuq.com (Chuck Silvers) writes: > - fsck will take a new option "-c ea" to specify that an existing UFS2 > file system should be converted to support extended attributes > (ie. converted to UFS2ea). This conversion first clears all of the on-disk > pointers to extended attribute blocks (the inode "di_extb" field), > since in NetBSD releases prior to NetBSD 10, those pointers could only > have been set to non-zero values by corruption in the file system.
There should be a way back so that the filesystem becomes usuable by netbsd-9 again (basically: clear di_extb and set magic to UFS2). Would also be nice to pull up that feature to netbsd-9.