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Date:      Sat, 2 Jun 2001 20:59:13 -0400
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dirpref and RELENG_4 fsck
Message-ID:  <20010602205912.F1832@superconductor.rush.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010602154633.A25944@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 03:46:33PM -0700
References:  <20010602154633.A25944@xor.obsecurity.org>

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* Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> [010602 18:46] wrote:
> Was it determined that the fsck corruption problems which were seen
> with fsck after the introduction of the dirpref changes do not affect
> RELENG_4?  I haven't seen any MFC of changes to the RELENG_4 fsck
> code, and I'm kind of worried now that I've reverted my current system
> back to RELENG_4 :-)

Afaik the problem was that fsck would wipe certain stats info that
dirpref would use, however I think the kernel detects absurd values
and will reinit them.

I could be way off about this though. :)

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.

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