From: hlu@luke.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) Subject: Re: URGENT WARNING for XIAFS users Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1993 18:55:51 GMT
In article <1993Mar14.165903.3614@tc.cornell.edu> Julian Cowley <julian@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> writes:
>An unfortunate mistake has happened with the upgrade to linux 0.99.7
>regarding xiafs.
>
>The code which is in 0.99.7 is *not* based on xiafs 0.7.3. You should
>*NOT* use xiafspgm 0.8 to modify your xiafs partition until a patch can
>be sent out for linux 0.99.7, otherwise you will render your partition
>useless. I know, since I just did it :-). xiafspgm 0.8 assumes that
>you are using xiafs 0.7.3, which I wasn't.
>
>For those like me who just hung themselves, it would be *great* if
>Mr. H.J. Lu could please issue a new bootable rootdisk for linux 0.99.7,
>containing xiafs 0.7.3, after a patch becomes available for it.
>
I tried to make it last night. As you can image, I trashed my floppy
rootdisks. Fortunately, I didn't run it on my hard drive.
BTW, I even tried make a new xiafs on a floppy with 0.99.7 and
xiafspgm 0.8. It failed too.
H.J.