Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 13:18:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Heiko Schaefer <hschaefer@fto.de> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Precaution! Message-ID: <20030506131623.X65698@daneel.foundation.hs> In-Reply-To: <20030505.112625.16415226.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20030505.112625.16415226.imp@bsdimp.com>
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Hello Warner, > If you booted a kernel from approximately April 15th through May 3th, > there were a number of small, but critical, vm bugs. This can cause > file system corruption, and leave silent landmines for later. It is > recommended that if you did boot these kernels, you build a newer > kernel, come up in single user and force an fsck on all filesystems. > This is to prevent 'false' panics later that are a result of the > corruption that might be dormant in them now. could this bug have caused corruption of the content of files as well ? i am having relatively rare cases of corrupted (32kb sized blocks of) data which i copy from disk to disk - and am now wondering if this might be related. thanks, Heiko
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