cvs commit: src/sbin/growfs debug.c debug.h

[Nate Lawson]

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Juli Mallett wrote:
> * Nate Lawson <nate at root.org> [ Date: 2003-08-14 ]
> 	[ w.r.t. Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/growfs debug.c debug.h ]
> > > > The actual problem I am addressing is larger than growfs.  Basically, any
> > > > time a sblock change is made, every UFS utility in the system has to be
> > > > updated and growfs has not kept up.  So I have extracted sblock updating
> > > > into a routine that is shared between the kernel and userland so that it's
> > > > only in one place in the code.  But more work is needed before it can be
> > > > committed.
> > >
> > > Well, I'd say that libufs is already a right step in this direction.
> >
> > It also needs work but is outside the scope of what I'm doing.
>
> Can you tell me what?  I'm sure someone is interested in doing it, and
> depending on what it is, that may be me.  I have some things in mind
> regarding how "elegant" it is to try to move to more robust interfaces,
> but that's beside the point.  If there are deficiencies you hit, let
> me know.

I'm not worrying about accessors or anything.  All I'm doing is a shared
user/kernel function which updates sblocks version 0...n-1 to version n.
Currently libufs is not linked with the kernel.

-Nate