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Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 16:07:03 +0100
From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: boot0cfg problems
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On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 04:34:34 -0700
Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> wrote:

> Anyway, if the MBR did get updated without kern.geom.debugflags having
> bit 4 set, then wouldn't this indicate there's a bug in GEOM's "sector
> 0" protection?

Or that it knows that updating the active byte is harmless.

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Bruce Cran