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Date:      Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:22:59 +0200
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>, Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>, FreeBSD current users <current@FreeBSD.ORG>, re@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 5.0 showstopper
Message-ID:  <20021213212259.GO79290@vega.vega.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212131249190.9978-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
References:  <20021213202608.GB27316@dan.emsphone.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212131249190.9978-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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I've also bumped into this problem, when after upgrading memory I
didn't increase swap size, so that after a panic the system
overwrote disklabel. Fortunately, my root partition was placed
after swap, not before it, so that recreating disklaber revived
the system.

-Maxim

On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 12:52:52PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Dan Nelson wrote:
> 
> > In the last episode (Dec 13), Julian Elischer said:
> > > It's always been there. the question is 
> > > "Who has broken it?"
> 
> I think this is a 5.0 showstopper. Having 5.0 overwrite your
> Windows partition would be "poor" PR.
> Having a quick look at it, it shouldn't be too hard for PHK
> to fix it as he has all the correct parts currently "loaded"
> into his head. Especially such things as making GEOM not allow writes
> to -ve blocknumbers (as must have happenned for root to have been
> overwritten).
> 
> > 
> > I think it has just slowly bitrotted.  I opened a PR on this in
> > November.
> > 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/45777
> > 
> > -- 
> > 	Dan Nelson
> > 	dnelson@allantgroup.com
> > 
> 
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