From: sdh@po.CWRU.Edu (Scott D. Heavner) Subject: MINIX DEFRAG errors -- trashed all my static libs. Date: 17 Apr 1993 23:20:08 GMT
Sometime within the last few weeks, I tried defrag-0.4
(at least I think it was 0.4) on my minix fs. I did everything
from a floppy with the root partition unmounted.
Everthing appeared OK, I got no error messages, but then
some of my binaries stopped working, I replaced my libc.so.4
and everthing was OK. Then I noticed some X apps weren't working,
they all crashed with segmentation faults, so I replaced all
the static X libs. Eventually, I found something wrong with all
my static libs and had to replace them all. It was just a
real pain trying to figure out waht went wrong.
Is there a reason behind this? Should one never defragment
a static lib, or should there be a better defragmenting system
that preserves whatever holes might exist in the libs.
Scott
sdh@po.cwru.edu
-- HELP! I'm being held prisoner in a .sig file factory.