rhealey@digibd.com (Rob Healey) (04/27/91)
This is AMIX 1.1: OK, now that I made my custom install disk so that I can partition my disk the way I want it partitioned, what BAD things are going to happen to me if I use the ufs file system on a non-root filesystem partition, i.e. /home is a seperate partition and I want to use ufs for it. I did some experiments with a ufs filesystem on a floppy and I couldn't make anything bad happen. I tried make, cpio, find symlinks and every possible way to try to break the filesystem and it still hummed along just ducky. Is there a danger in using the ufs filesystem on a filesystem that is NOT the root filesystem? All the other partitions, / and /var, will be s5 filesystems. -Rob -- Rob Healey rhealey@digibd.com Digi International (DigiBoard) Eden Prairie, MN (612) 943-9020
ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski) (04/28/91)
In article <1991Apr27.035200.3704@digibd.com> rhealey@digibd.com (Rob Healey) writes: > Is there a danger in using the ufs filesystem on a filesystem > that is NOT the root filesystem? All the other partitions, / > and /var, will be s5 filesystems. We have seen kernel panics when using the ufs filesystem as a news partition. These panics seems to happen during lots of inode munging. Normal use does not seem to be a problem athough I do stress that the ufs filesystem IS KNOWN TO BE BROKEN. Pax, Keith -- Keith Gabryelski Advanced Products Group ag@amix.commodore.com ...!cbmvax!amix!ag
arnold@audiofax.com (Arnold Robbins) (04/30/91)
In article <1918@amix.commodore.com> ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski) writes: > [ talking about the ufs file system ] > >Normal use does not seem to be a problem athough I do stress that the >ufs filesystem IS KNOWN TO BE BROKEN. Is this just in AMIX, or in the code as shipped from AT&T? -- Arnold Robbins AudioFAX, Inc. | Threads are the 2000 Powers Ferry Road, Suite 200 / Marietta, GA. 30067 | lack of an idea. INTERNET: arnold@audiofax.com Phone: +1 404 618 4281 | -- Rob Pike UUCP: emory!audfax!arnold Fax-box: +1 404 618 4581 |
ccplumb@rose.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb) (04/30/91)
arnold@audiofax.com (Arnold Robbins) wrote: >In article <1918@amix.commodore.com> ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski) writes: >> Normal use does not seem to be a problem athough I do stress that the >> ufs filesystem IS KNOWN TO BE BROKEN. > > Is this just in AMIX, or in the code as shipped from AT&T? This is in AT&T's code. Apparently, AT&T has a fix, and wants to charge significant extra for it. This has pissed off a number of people. -- -Colin