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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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