From: copernicus@digund.uucp (Copernicus) Subject: efsprogs alpha 6 Date: 21 Aug 1992 20:07:00 GMT
RCC:> For people that downloaded the efsprogs version alpha 5,
RCC:>DON'T USE THEM !!! In version alpha 5, efsck contains a bug which
RCC:>can cause some great damages on an ext fs. The bug is fixed in
RCC:>the new version (alpha 6) which is available on ftp-masi.ibp.fr
RCC:>in the directory pub/linux/ALPHA/extfs (files efsprogs6.tar.Z,
RCC:>efsprogs6.bin.tar.Z, efsprogs6.src.tar.Z) and I expect them to
RCC:>be available on tsx-11 in directory pub/linux/ALPHA/extfs soon.
RCC:>Changes from alpha 5 to alpha 6 are :
RCC:>- in efsck, a bad test on directory structures is fixed,
RCC:>- efsck and mkefs now use getopt() to decode arguments,
RCC:>- mkefs now accepts a -i option to specify the ratio of inodes.
RCC:> I strongly apologize for the bug in efsck :-{
RCC:> Remy
RCC:>--
Thats great to hear.
I have a question for you. I am running Linux 0.97pl1 (where is L.T's 0.5
patch?), and your extfs alpha 5 system (will up to 6 this weekend), and the
dosfs extensions.
My question is: Why when I boot Linux I get a magic match failed but Linux
mounts the extended file system correctly anyways? Is this just an fluke
message poping up?
/etc/mtab: (citing this from memory)
/dev/hda2 / ext default
/etc/rc:
mount -av
Besides that little message the file system works great! Now I just
need to get the source code to everything and recompile it!
Chris Nalley