NetBSD newfs bug (was:Re: [rescue] OpenBSD)

[Jochen Kunz]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 04:45:20AM -0500, Julius Sridhar wrote:

> > > Yes, I've tried NetBSD but I am unimpressed when it can't even newfs a
> > > 800Mb filesystem without crashing during the install.  I'm impressed when
> >   Uhhhh...what?
> Yeah.  I didn't have any problems newfsing the big filesystem on my main
> fileserver and that was about 800 *GB*.
800GB??? Tstststs. (What machine is this?)
I would be happy to have 8GB.

I can remember that there was a bug in newfs on NetBSD/alpha. 
I think it was related to a gcc compiler bug, but I may be wrong 
here. Check the mailing list archive...
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         Jochen

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