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Ryan Sommers wrote:

>>
>> I'll also note in my FreeBSD current debugging of some drivers it was
>> about a 50/50 shot as to if this would happen.  Having to fsck every 
>> other reboot was only made less painful by the background fsck thing.
>
>
> Don't some BIOS' protect the superblocks as a kind of "virus 
> protection"? Could this be related to them? 


No.

-DR