Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 17:09:59 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: GH <grasshacker@over-yonder.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP! bad bug in -current. Message-ID: <20010501170959.B13736@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20010501182359.A22707@over-yonder.net>; from grasshacker@over-yonder.net on Tue, May 01, 2001 at 06:23:59PM -0500 References: <20010501191534.96E1A380C@overcee.netplex.com.au> <20010501182359.A22707@over-yonder.net>
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--s/l3CgOIzMHHjg/5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 06:23:59PM -0500, GH wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:15:34PM -0700, some SMTP stream spewed forth:= =20 > > Any -current kernel built over the weekend is a likely victim of this b= ug. > > In a nutshell, it will eat your root filesystem at the very least, leav= ing > > you with maybe one or two files in /lost+found. spec_vnops.c rev 1.156 > > is should be avoided at all costs. > >=20 > > BEWARE: there are some snapshots on current.freebsd.org with this bug. = They > > will self destruct after install. > >=20 > > ------- Forwarded Messages > *snip* >=20 > Say, FreeBSD is usually pretty safe, even in CURRENT. > Has something near this magnitude of Really Bad Stuffage snuck into the > codebase before? >=20 > (This is just for my personal knowledge. I don't remeber anything this > bad in recent times.) It happens from time to time. VM was really unstable for a period a few years ago (3.0-CURRENT timeframe) when John Dyson was dinking with it. This is why you need to be extra-careful when running -current on systems with data you care about :-) Kris --s/l3CgOIzMHHjg/5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE671BWWry0BWjoQKURAnAEAKDjIeDEWVK23xfGLoR3RkKEVFyNmQCgmeMb VfrQRZd+xVKcFHP4+G+MJCs= =75Bc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --s/l3CgOIzMHHjg/5-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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