Re: UFS Problems in 2.1.116p1
Wojtek Pilorz (wpilorz@bdk.pl)
Mon, 17 Aug 1998 10:05:05 +0200 (MET DST)
On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
>
> All,
>
> Any attempt at mounting a DEC Ultrix CD using:
>
> mount -t ufs -o ro /dev/cdrom /mnt
>
> locks the kernel solid - instantly. No log messages no error messages.
> Won't even respond to three-finger salute. This is 100% repeatable, and
> occurs on two different boxes (one with ATAPI CD-Rom and one with SCSI).
Some time ago I tried to mount a CD-ROM with ufs on it on a Linux machine
with 2.0.30 kernel, and it said to me that 2k blocks are not supported, or
a similar message
(do not remember well, it was a few months ago; if you need the exact
message I can find those CD-ROMs and try to mount them again)
This CD-ROMs work with SVR4 system;
>
> This begs two questions:
>
> 1) Is the UFS filesystem supposed to support DEC UFS format?
>
> 2) If not, isn't this sudden-death a rather serious bug?
>
> Steve
Best regards,
Wojtek
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