On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 03:06:22AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Sun, 22 Oct 2017, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > > > Author: kib > > Date: Sun Oct 22 08:11:45 2017 > > New Revision: 324853 > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/324853 > > > > Log: > > Remove the support for mknod(S_IFMT), which created dummy vnodes with > > VBAD type. > > > > FFS ffs_write() VOP catches such vnodes and panics, other VOPs do not > > check for the type and their behaviour is really undefined. The > > comment claims that this support was done for 'badsect' to flag bad > > sectors, we do not have such facility in kernel anyway. > > badsect(8) is a utility and this commit breaks it by removing its kernel > support.
I see, thank you for the pointer. I will prepare the patch to remove badsect(8). _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
