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Date:      Tue, 28 Sep 2004 00:55:06 +0200
From:      Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
To:        Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA6 available
Message-ID:  <m37jqfxqyd.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>
In-Reply-To: <m3brfr691u.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> (Matthias Andree's message of "Mon, 27 Sep 2004 17:11:41 %2B0200")
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Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

>>> 3. data corruption on unaligned block access bug, kern/60313,
>>>    is still open and unpatched AFAICS
>>
>> Is this actually an issue in FreeBSD 5?  In the audit trail of the PR,
>> Bruce Evans seems to concede that GEOM checks block alignment
>> properly.

OK, seeking to a position that is not a multiple of the block size
appears to trigger EINVAL on a subsequent write so this is
NOT an issue for FreeBSD 5.

-- 
Matthias Andree

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