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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Sharing partitions between FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 and 2.0
Date: 8 Dec 1994 20:02:13 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  Montana
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Message-ID: <3c7oo5$fos@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
References: <D0Hy2E.2E9@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <3c7f7k$cue@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <3c7ib9$ipu@grapevine.lcs.mit.edu>
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In article <3c7ib9$ipu@grapevine.lcs.mit.edu>,
Garrett A. Wollman <wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
>In article <3c7f7k$cue@pdq.coe.montana.edu>,
>Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> wrote:
>
>>Something is happening to the super-blocks.  It may be symlinks,
>>[...]
>
>It's the clean bit, Nate.  The clean bit is only stored in the main
>superblock, which is why fsck likes the first alternate.

Doesn't 2.0 recognize it's a 1.X system and NOT try to do the clean bit
handling?


Nate
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