Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:14:17 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> To: "K.J.Koster" <kjk1@ukc.ac.uk> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A simple way to crash your system. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961125131249.16405B-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.95.961125131025.5534A-100000@kestrel.ukc.ac.uk>
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On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, K.J.Koster wrote: > Hello hackers, > > Last night I discovered a simple way to crash my system (2.1.5-release). > It is really nothing that you would do every day, but still. > > After rebuilding my kernel, and doing a `make install' on it, I wanted to > make a little change to my autoexec.bat, before rebooting so: > > LikeEver# make install > *chew chew, installed kernel* > LikeEver# mount /msdos > *silence*... Uh, Oh... > *twitch, grasp, cold reboot* > > This is obviously stupidity on my part, for not rebooting immediately > after installing the kernel, but still. > > Altough I am speculating here, I think this has to do with the fact that > I do not have msdosfs compiled in with the kernel. After installing a > different kernel, I asked the system to modload msdosfs, with the above > result. > > Please CC me, as I'm not on the list. > > Groetjes, > Kees Jan > > ------------------------------------------------------------v-- > Kees Jan Koster Kemsing gardens 46 > e-mail: kjk1@ukc.ac.uk Canterbury, Kent > phone: UK-1227-452151 CT2 7RF, United Kingdom > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Yesterday I could not even write "Engenier", > and now I are one. > > > Msdosfs is seriously broken. It has twice damaged my filesystem to the extent that I had to reinstall FreeBSD. Don't use it. There is no documentation of the fact that it's that screwed up, which is something that whoever's responsible for documenting these things might want to look into. Ben
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