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Date:      Sat, 30 Nov 2002 17:43:53 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Kirk McKusick <mckusick@McKusick.COM>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Trashed Disk Labels
Message-ID:  <20021130174229.L3363-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <200211291938.gATJcS59077381@beastie.mckusick.com>

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On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Kirk McKusick wrote:

> I have had a report of a disk label getting trashed after booting
> up to a kernel with the new UFS2 superblock format. I have just
> checked in an update to ufs/ffs/ffs_vfsops.c (version 1.198) that
> explicitly checks to make sure that it will not trash your disk
> label. I highly recommend that you update to this version, even if
> you are only running with UFS1 filesystems.

Labels should be write protected, but this seems to have been broken
by GEOM.

Bruce


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