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Date:      Wed, 15 Sep 2004 07:29:36 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Allan Fields <bsd@afields.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can't reattach gbde slice [testing] 
Message-ID:  <8859.1095226176@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Sep 2004 23:17:33 EDT." <20040915031733.GA17432@afields.ca> 

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In message <20040915031733.GA17432@afields.ca>, Allan Fields writes:
>On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 07:59:07PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> can you try the two fixes I just committed to -current ?
>
>Yes, seems to solve problems attaching in this test case.
>I've tried to break things again: so far seems fine, but
>haven't done anything exhaustive.
>
>Is it necessary after patching to rebuild number_of_keys=1 volumes
>that haven't had key sector problems yet?

I would do it to be on the safe side if I were you.  If it is very
cumbersome, it would be possible to tell from the four keysector
locations and the disk-size if there is any danger: basically if
any of the "unused" locations address modulus 2^32 are inside the
size of the disk, then the volume is at risk. 

>Will patches be included in upcoming 5.3-release?  Otherwise
>notification in errata would help, just in case people setup such
>a device.

yes.

>Those with existing such volumes should now dump the filesystem
>and apply patches since they might otherwise loose data w/ existing
>gbde device and an unpatched kernel.

yes.

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