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Date:      Tue, 1 May 2001 18:23:59 -0500
From:      GH <grasshacker@over-yonder.net>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP! bad bug in -current.
Message-ID:  <20010501182359.A22707@over-yonder.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010501191534.96E1A380C@overcee.netplex.com.au>; from peter@wemm.org on Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:15:34PM -0700
References:  <20010501191534.96E1A380C@overcee.netplex.com.au>

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On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:15:34PM -0700, some SMTP stream spewed forth: 
> Any -current kernel built over the weekend is a likely victim of this bug.
> In a nutshell, it will eat your root filesystem at the very least, leaving
> you with maybe one or two files in /lost+found.  spec_vnops.c rev 1.156
> is should be avoided at all costs.
> 
> BEWARE: there are some snapshots on current.freebsd.org with this bug. They
> will self destruct after install.
> 
> ------- Forwarded Messages
*snip*

Say, FreeBSD is usually pretty safe, even in CURRENT.
Has something near this magnitude of Really Bad Stuffage snuck into the
codebase before?

(This is just for my personal knowledge. I don't remeber anything this
bad in recent times.)


gh


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