It does not help modern compilers, and some may take some hit from it.
(I also found several functions that listed *every* of its 10 local vars with
"register" -- just how many free registers do people think machines have?)
effect on operation of fsck on filesystems without snapshots.
If you get compilation errors, be sure that you have copies of
/usr/include/sys/mount.h (1.94), /usr/include/sys/stat.h (1.21),
and /usr/include/ufs/ffs/fs.h (1.16) as of July 4, 2000 or later.
DIR I=64512 CONNECTED. PARENT WAS I=4032
fsck: cannot find inode 995904
fsdb found the inodes with no problem:
fsdb (inum: 64512)> inode 995904
current inode: directory
I=995904 MODE=40777 SIZE=512
MTIME=Feb 14 15:27:07 2000 [0 nsec]
CTIME=Feb 14 15:27:07 2000 [0 nsec]
ATIME=Feb 24 10:31:58 2000 [0 nsec]
OWNER=nobody GRP=nobody LINKCNT=4 FLAGS=0 BLKCNT=2 GEN=38a41386
Direct blocks: 8094568 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indirect blocks: 0 0 0
The problem turns out to be a program logic error in fsck. It stores
directory inodes internally in hash lists, using the number of
directories to form the hash key:
inpp = &inphead[inumber % numdirs];
Elsewhere, however, it increments numdirs when it finds unattached
directories. I've made the following fix, which solved the problem in
the case in hand.
Submitted by: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Reviewed by: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Approved by: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
Submitted by: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@McKusick.COM>
Obtained from: Mckusick, BSDI and a host of others
This exactly matches Kirks sources imported under the
Tag MCKUSICK2. These are as supplied by kirk with one small
change needed to compile under freeBSD.
Some FreeBSD patches will be added back, though many have been
added to Kirk's sources already.