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From: wiserner@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Bernd Wiserner)
Subject: Re: [BUG?] newfs with bsize = 16 kb ?
References: <1993Oct23.193511.18122@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <CFGCts.FEB@flatlin.ka.sub.org>
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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 13:40:10 GMT
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In article <CFGCts.FEB@flatlin.ka.sub.org> bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura) writes:
>In <1993Oct23.193511.18122@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> wiserner@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Bernd Wiserner) writes:
>
>>[tries to make a filesystem with 16KB blocks, but fails miserable]
>
>Increase MAXBSIZE in /sys/sys/param.h to 16384, recompile and install
>the kernel.  After that you have a least a chance that it works.  You
>might have to recompile newfs and mkfs too.  If after that it still
>doesn't work you have discovered a bug.
>
Increasing MAXBSIZE is one point. The other is that it shouldn't crash my 
OTHER disk however MAXBSIZE is set.( I made newfs on sd1 and it crashed sd0 ! )
>
>-- 
>Christoph Badura	bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org		+49 721 606137
>
>The GOTO is back, and not only in the pages of the ACM Forum! The Ollie North
>of language commands is turning up ... -- D.Foster, CACM V30#8 p. 659