Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 15:03:49 +0200 From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r324853 - in head/sys: kern sys Message-ID: <20171105130349.GZ2566@kib.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <20171105014453.L1354@besplex.bde.org> References: <201710220811.v9M8Bjw5033551@repo.freebsd.org> <20171105014453.L1354@besplex.bde.org>
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On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 03:06:22AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Sun, 22 Oct 2017, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > > > Author: kib > > Date: Sun Oct 22 08:11:45 2017 > > New Revision: 324853 > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/324853 > > > > Log: > > Remove the support for mknod(S_IFMT), which created dummy vnodes with > > VBAD type. > > > > FFS ffs_write() VOP catches such vnodes and panics, other VOPs do not > > check for the type and their behaviour is really undefined. The > > comment claims that this support was done for 'badsect' to flag bad > > sectors, we do not have such facility in kernel anyway. > > badsect(8) is a utility and this commit breaks it by removing its kernel > support. I see, thank you for the pointer. I will prepare the patch to remove badsect(8).
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