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From: Paul de Weerd <weerd@...>
To: John Brahy <john@...>
Cc: Misc@ <misc@...>
Subject: Re: newfs block device
Date: Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 3:12 am

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 02:02:43PM -0700, John Brahy wrote:

| # newfs /dev/wd0f

| newfs: /dev/wd0f: block device

| #

|

| I thought that I have done that before. Have we lost functionality in

| 4.5 or just my mind?


A bug that allowed newfs'ing block devices was fixed. We did not lose

functionality, we gained stability. Your perspective is skewed ;)


The archives will tell you what could go wrong when running newfs on a

block device. Someone explained it very well, I believe it was otto@.


Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd


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Re: newfs block device, Paul de Weerd, (Thu Apr 23, 3:12 am)
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