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From: driscoll@eecae.UUCP (Mike Driscoll)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: mkfs 1.2 problem
Message-ID: <8136@eecae.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 88 13:36:29 GMT
References: <701@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State U., E. Lansing MI
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in article <701@ast.cs.vu.nl>, ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) says:
> 
> In article <7930@eecae.UUCP> driscoll@eecae.UUCP (Mike Driscoll) writes:
>>in article <1867@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, wee@iris (Chris Wee) says:

[ Problem using mkfs with proto files is described.  ]

> 
> The only thing I can think of, is give mkfs more stack space with chmem.
> For example, chmem =40000 /usr/bin/mkfs.  Many weird problems are caused by
> not having enough stack space. 
> 
> Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)

  As several people pointed out, this does fix the problem.  I used
chmem =20000 mkfs and it worked fine.  The commands makefile uses
chmem =2048 for whatever command you are making.  This is obviously 
not correct for mkfs.  The book says that whenever something
acts funny, try chmem.  So, of course, I didn't try that until 
someone told me to :-)  Thanks for the help, everyone!

Mike


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