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Date:      Tue, 17 Mar 1998 00:11:00 -0600
From:      Karl Denninger  <karl@mcs.net>
To:        Daniel Berlin <root@danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu>
Cc:        Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: WARNING WILL ROBINSON! Risk of severe filesystem damage suspected
Message-ID:  <19980317001100.18078@mcs.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980317005703.321A-100000@danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu>; from Daniel Berlin on Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 01:02:01AM -0500
References:  <Pine.SV4.3.95.980317145358.8814B-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980317005703.321A-100000@danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu>

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Be VERY careful Dan.

Unmount those disks and run a FSCK on them *right now*.

The patch to vfs_cluster IS NOT the problem; I backed it out, and the kernel
that I built after that still causes trouble.  

I'm still searching for the root cause of this.

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On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 01:02:01AM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> No no no, haven't you been watching those IBM commercials?
> It was probably the malicious hackers who can break through routers
> blocking their packets, cover their tracks and unleash viruses all over
> your computer in a matter of seconds, unless you are using IBM certified
> solutions.
> I bet it was them.
> Damn hax0rs.
> 
> But seriously, i have just started to see a couple weird filesystem
> related things since building a kernel a couple hours ago and rebooting a
> couple times that weren't happening yesterday.
> arghghghgh
> --Dan
> On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Michael Hancock wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible that the previous kernel quietly trashed your disks and it
> > didn't manifest itself until after the last vm fix commit?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Mike Hancock
> 

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