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Date:      Mon, 23 Apr 2001 23:12:42 +0100
From:      Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>, iedowse@maths.tcd.ie
Subject:   Re: kernel core 
Message-ID:   <200104232312.aa52217@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:08:39 MDT." <200104232208.f3NM8d876569@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <200104232208.f3NM8d876569@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes:
>: 
>: Yes, but until such time as we do that we should warn people in UPDATING at
>: least.
>: 
>
>OK, but you won't like the UPDATING entry.

The bug actually looks fairly simple to fix. ffs_reload() isn't
checking if the new superblock fields are zero, so if an old fsck
zeros them out between a read-oly mount and a read-write remount,
then we get a division by zero or something later.

Ian

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