Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 07:34:33 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Update: 2.0.5 scrambled filesystems. Message-ID: <199506191434.HAA02241@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jun 95 10:15:07 EDT." <199506191415.KAA04039@rwwa.com>
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>> Yeah, try not mounting your dos filesystem and see if that makes any >> difference. > >Bingo! What gives? How does reading from the /dos filesystem clobber >the /usr filesystem? Does this bug show up on all systems? Shouldn't >this be flagged in <bold><italic>red </italic></bold>in the installation >info<bold><italic>?</italic></bold> Um, well, if we knew it was *that* broken, I suppose. I don't really know why it is clobbering things, but a quick guess would be that it is using old vnodes that have been reclaimed...but I really have no idea. We've known that msdosfs is broken for sometime - but not in this particular way. "Oh well". :-) -DG
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