Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 17:43:53 +1100 (EST)
From: Bruce Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: Kirk McKusick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Trashed Disk Labels
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On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Kirk McKusick wrote:
> I have had a report of a disk label getting trashed after booting
> up to a kernel with the new UFS2 superblock format. I have just
> checked in an update to ufs/ffs/ffs_vfsops.c (version 1.198) that
> explicitly checks to make sure that it will not trash your disk
> label. I highly recommend that you update to this version, even if
> you are only running with UFS1 filesystems.
Labels should be write protected, but this seems to have been broken
by GEOM.
Bruce
Disk labels certainly used to be write protected. Not sure when that
stopped, but it certainly would have been useful in this recent context.
Kirk McKusick
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