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[Lukas Ertl]

On Wed, 7 May 2003, Doug Barton wrote:

> Thanks for the historical perspective. I am not sure how big of a problem
> my situation is, since it will only apply to people trying to run a
> releng_4 fsck on a ufs2 filesystem under the special circumstances you
> described.

It will also affect people who try to mount a UFS2 filesystem in 4.x, as
is stated in the PR, and probably it will affect every RELENG_4 program
that tries to read a (UFS1) superblock.

> However, if it's something we can prevent with relative ease, I
> think it's worthwhile to do so. No sense loading the foot-shooting gun
> with more bullets than absolutely necessary.

That's true of course. I'm not sure about the necessity of such a fix
either, but OTOH, I would expect newfs to really wipe everything.

regards,
le

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