From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Jun 28 13:21:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77DEC37B401 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:21:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA02662; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 22:21:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Dima Dorfman Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/28465: Enabling softupdates on a clean but active filesystem can panic the kernel References: <200106272250.f5RMo9691746@freefall.freebsd.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 28 Jun 2001 22:21:42 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200106272250.f5RMo9691746@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dima Dorfman writes: > All this does is cover up the bug, and makes it harder for someone to > fix it by making them go hack tunefs :-). Unix traditionally allows > the user to do silly things. Of course, this isn't documented as a > silly thing; that should probably be fixed. It used to be documented (I did it a few years ago) but somebody decided that it wasn't nice of us to scare users and undocumented it. As far as I know, it hasn't been fixed - ask Kirk, he should know. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message