Re: port-mac68k/37474: After installing a system, booting into it, and mounting /, I get a message s

On Dec 14, 2007, at 6:42 PM, John Klos wrote:
> All of that stuff is made up by NetBSD. Drives don't
actually have a 
> set number of sectors per track, for instance, and
haven't for two 
> decades. What really matters is if there's a difference
in the way the 
> partitions are reported.
>
> There is a possibility that there's some off-by-one
problem in the 
> filesystem code which is why deliberate gaps, even
though they're 
> tiny, appears to make everything happy.

Am I right that you are suggesting I put 16k of free space
between each 
partition when I set up the drive with the Apple HD SC
utility?  That 
doesn't take into consideration the fact that NetBSD 1.5.3
works on my 
present partition scheme and 4.0R5 doesn't.  How do you
account for 
that?

Tom

> Am I right that you are suggesting I put 16k of free
space between each 
> partition when I set up the drive with the Apple HD SC
utility?  That doesn't 
> take into consideration the fact that NetBSD 1.5.3
works on my present 
> partition scheme and 4.0R5 doesn't.  How do you account
for that?

Possibly bugs in newer filesystem code.

John