> To: Enji Cooper <yaneurab...@gmail.com>
> cc: "O. Hartmann" <ohartm...@walstatt.org>,
>         freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, mckus...@mckusick.com
> Subject: Re: CURRENT: supeblock hash failure - CURRENT wrecking disks
> From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <p...@phk.freebsd.dk>
> --------
> In message <39fb31e6-a8ec-484c-b297-39c19a787...@gmail.com>, Enji Cooper 
> writes
> :
> 
> There is an "interesting" failure-mechanism when you move a disk
> between 13/current and older systems which do not support ufs-hashes.
> 
> It will be prudent to make 11 and 12 clear the "use hashes" flags
> in the superblocks of all filesystems they mount R/W, to limit
> the amount havoc this will cause when people start playing with 13.
> 
> -- 
> Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
> p...@freebsd.org         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
> FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
> Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.

Both stable-11 and stable-12 clear the "use hashes" flags. If the disk
is moved back to a 13-head system they remain disabled until reenabled
by running fsck in interactive mode and requesting that they be enabled.

        Kirk McKusick
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