From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 13 13:23:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 298A437B401; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:23:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from baraca.united.net.ua (ns.united.net.ua [193.111.8.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D881C43ED1; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:23:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from max@vega.com) Received: from vega.vega.com (root@xDSL-2-2.united.net.ua [193.111.9.226]) by baraca.united.net.ua (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBDLN4BR013380; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:23:05 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from max@vega.com) Received: from vega.vega.com (max@localhost.vega.com [127.0.0.1]) by vega.vega.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gBDLN5Gi081188; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:23:05 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from max@localhost) by vega.vega.com (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id gBDLMxIQ081186; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:22:59 +0200 (EET) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:22:59 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev To: Julian Elischer Cc: Dan Nelson , Nate Lawson , Kevin Oberman , FreeBSD current users , re@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0 showstopper Message-ID: <20021213212259.GO79290@vega.vega.com> References: <20021213202608.GB27316@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message