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From: Bill Harris <billh@airmail.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: FSCK on 1.2 runs out of memory on large FS
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 10:51:01 -0600
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I seem to have found a problem with fsck on NetBSD i386 1.2? I don't
know if it's been reported or not, but it appears to be a memory
related problem when fsck'ing large filesystems.

We've got a 4gig filesystem with lot's of inodes, 1 per 1024, when
running fsck we get the following error.  This is after a new newfs
on the drive.  The filesystem is fine for now, and since we are using
it for a proxy drive, it's not a big deal.  But if this where anything
else, it would be.  

webcache2# fsck -f /dev/rsd1a
** /dev/rsd1a
** File system is already clean
cannot alloc 7871362 bytes for lncntp
webcache2# 

Has this already been found and fixed?  If so, where do I find 
the patches to 1.2.

Bill