mention the fixsb script and updated information on botched superblock

upgrade issues
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$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.117 2004/04/23 19:44:47 jmc Exp $
$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.118 2004/04/25 21:16:57 dbj Exp $
This file is intended to be a brief introduction to the build
process and a reference on what to do if something doesn't work.
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Recent changes:
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20040425:
The ffs superblock issues listed below under 20040109 and 20030402
are now automatically addressed by the /etc/rc.d/fixsb script or by
sysinst when it checks a a filesystem. The manual fsck_ffs -b16 -c4
invocation mentioned below will continue to work and is now
automated by those scripts. Note that under certain circumstances,
affected filesystems upgraded to a -current kernel first before
upgrading their userland with the fixsb and fsck_ffs fixes may
encounter a 'freeing free inode' panic when writing to the affected
filesystem, so it is a good idea to repair the filesystem as soon as
possible. For more details on the fixsb script, see pr install/25138.
20040418:
Statfs(2) and friends have been replaced with statvfs(2). Before
installing a newly build userland make sure that you are running