fdisk, bsdlabel and hidden tricks

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:22:13 +0000 (GMT)
wpaul at FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul) wrote:

>   Also, when creating what's supposed to be /, make sure you toggle
> off softupdates in the label editor. It's smart enough to only enable
>   softupdates by default on non-root filesystems, but it only knows
> this by checking if the name of the filesystem is /.
> 
>   Why is this important? I don't know if this is a bug or expected
>   broken behavior, but when I created / with softupdates enabled,
>   I found the ls(1) command would crash or report strange output
> whenever I did ls -l. It seems to be unable to read the file mode
> information correctly. This was true of _all_ filesystems, not
> just /. The Soekris board would otherwise run correctly. Once I
> realized my mistake, I went back and recreated the rootfs with
> softupdates off, and the problem went away.
> 
>   This is probably yet another "we don't do that by default so we
> won't bother testing it" bug.

I don't think I'm seeing this here on a
FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #0: Wed Jan 11 05:29:04 EET 2006 


itetcu at dukat >-SSH-> /home/itetcu [2:18:47] 0
 > mount
/dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local, soft-updates)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
/dev/ad0s1d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates)
devfs on /var/named/dev (devfs, local)
itetcu at dukat >-SSH-> /home/itetcu [2:18:49] 0
 > ll
total 52
-rw-r--r--  1 itetcu  wheel   767 Jan 10 08:08 .cshrc
-rw-------  1 itetcu  wheel  1402 Jan 31 18:34 .history
-rw-r--r--  1 itetcu  wheel   248 Jan 10 08:08 .login
-rw-r--r--  1 itetcu  wheel   158 Jan 10 08:08 .login_conf
-rw-------  1 itetcu  wheel   373 Jan 10 08:08 .mail_aliases
-rw-r--r--  1 itetcu  wheel   331 Jan 10 08:08 .mailrc
-rw-r--r--  1 itetcu  wheel   797 Jan 10 08:08 .profile
-rw-------  1 itetcu  wheel   276 Jan 10 08:08 .rhosts
-rw-r--r--  1 itetcu  wheel   975 Jan 10 08:08 .shrc
drwxr-xr-x  2 itetcu  wheel   512 Jan 12 00:10 .ssh
drwxr-xr-x  2 itetcu  wheel   512 Jan 11 18:40 authlib
-r--r--r--  1 itetcu  wheel  7646 Jan 11 18:40 clamd.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 itetcu  wheel  1540 Jan 11 18:40 clamsmtpd.conf
drwxr-xr-x  4 itetcu  wheel   512 Jan 11 18:41 courier-imap
drwxr-xr-x  2 itetcu  wheel   512 Jan 11 18:38 master
-r--r--r--  1 itetcu  wheel  3016 Jan 11 18:39 multitail.conf
drwxr-xr-x  3 itetcu  wheel  1024 Jan 11 18:42 postfix
-rw-r--r--  1 itetcu  wheel  3312 Jan 11 18:39 screenrc
-rw-r--r--  1 root    wheel  5273 Jan 14 04:23 smart.initial


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