Re: e2fs and cd //

[Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 08:41:40PM +0100, Fredrik Liljegren wrote:
> I made a clean installation of hurd again today.  What strikes me from last
> time is that potato's current e2fs still makes a filesystem that hurd (or at
> least grub) has difficulties to read; so I had to downgrade to the stable
> again..  I don't know if this is a bug in e2fs or grub though; linux had no
> problems with it whatsoever.

I am just uploading a fresh hurd package which should fix all these
problems.
 
> I noticed too that when accidentally typing "cd //", the prompt tells me
> that I am in directory "//", but act just lika I'm in root...

Same under Linux.

ulysses:/# uname
Linux
ulysses:/# echo $BASH_VERSION
2.03.0(1)-release
ulysses:/# cd //
ulysses://# tcsh
ulysses://# cd //
ulysses:/# exit
ulysses://#

Thanks,
Marcus

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