From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 13 13:35:12 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 CE02D37B401; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:35:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD0E643EC2; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:35:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (12-232-168-4.client.attbi.com[12.232.168.4]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03) with ESMTP id <20021213213508003006ll4de>; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:35:09 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA10890; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:32:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:32:37 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: Dan Nelson , Nate Lawson , Kevin Oberman , FreeBSD current users , re@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0 showstopper In-Reply-To: <20021213212259.GO79290@vega.vega.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 just posted a hack that should stop this from happenning how does it look? (I haven't tested it.). On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > 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