I'd like to thank the following folks for their responses:
davis_at_decatl.alf.dec.com
alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
rlm_at_helen.surfcty.com
jude_at_tsi.com.my
Thanks,
Ronny Eliahu
The Walt Disney Company
Disney Studios, Burbank California
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Ron,
Running newfs on the /dev/vol (non-raw) device is a quirk of LSM.
The LSM device drivers "do the right thing" for you.
Alan Davis/dusg
davis_at_decatl.alf.dec.com
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alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
I've seen versions of newfs that checked the device type bits and only
allowed itself to be run on character devices. There should be no
difference, except perhaps the performance. Direct access through the
block device may end up doing lots of little 2 KB I/Os out of the
cache, which will show newfs down. The simplest thing to do if you're
not sure whether it behaved reasonably is to run fsck afterward. If it
find corruption, then use the raw device.
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Probably it translated for you. You don't say what version you use,
but I'm guessing it's a
late-model 3.2D+ or 4.0B. If you can mount the resulting filesystem,
you won.
--
Robert L. McMillin | Not the voice of Syseca, Inc. | rlm_at_syseca-us.com
Personal: rlm_at_helen.surfcty.com | NSrlm_at_netcom.com
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Dear Ronny,
'newfs' is always faster on raw devices. 'fsck' could behave starngely
on block devices but not 'newfs'.
Regards,
Jude T. Cruz
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Integrators, MALAYSIA
E-mail : jude_at_tsi.com.my
Phone : +603-4958888
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Received on Mon May 05 1997 - 18:17:08 NZST