stanonik@nprdc.arpa (Ron Stanonik) (11/26/85)
Why doesn't badsect create a regular file containing the bad block, rather than create an illegal file (mode = IFMT) leaving its conversion to a regular file up to fsck? Having badsect'ed a block, should dump continue to complain about it? I'd expect so, because the bad block is contained in a regular file, but recently we badsect'ed a couple of blocks and, oddly, dump only complains about one of them. (They are in the BAD directory, and they are not in the same frag.) If dump shouldn't complain, how are the regular files resulting from badsect/fsck distinquished from regular files which should be dumped? Oh, we're running 4.2bsd. Thanks, Ron Stanonik stanonik@nprdc.arpa