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From: ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Re: 1.1 and the ufs file system
Message-ID: <1918@amix.commodore.com>
Date: 27 Apr 91 18:09:48 GMT
References: <1991Apr27.035200.3704@digibd.com>
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In article <1991Apr27.035200.3704@digibd.com> rhealey@digibd.com (Rob Healey)
writes:
>	Is there a danger in using the ufs filesystem on a filesystem
>	that is NOT the root filesystem? All the other partitions, /
>	and /var, will be s5 filesystems.

We have seen kernel panics when using the ufs filesystem as a news
partition.  These panics seems to happen during lots of inode munging.

Normal use does not seem to be a problem athough I do stress that the
ufs filesystem IS KNOWN TO BE BROKEN.

Pax, Keith
-- 
Keith Gabryelski                                 Advanced Products Group
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