S5 file system magic number (was (Re: Pixel/80 trashed fs)

[Geoff Kuenning]

In article <10848 at sun.uucp> guy%gorodish at Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:

> Requiring a valid magic number would have required that the root file
> system be fixed before an S5 kernel was booted on it...I figure they just
> decided this was too much trouble.

Too bad.  The pre-conversion fix could have been done with a one-line script:

	echo '0x3fc?W <magic>' | adb -w /dev/root - > /dev/null
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	Geoff Kuenning
	{hplabs,ihnp4}!trwrb!desint!geoff