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Date:      28 Jun 2001 22:21:42 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kern/28465: Enabling softupdates on a clean but active filesystem can panic the kernel
Message-ID:  <xzp7kxwwe21.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <200106272250.f5RMo9691746@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200106272250.f5RMo9691746@freefall.freebsd.org>

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Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> writes:
>  All this does is cover up the bug, and makes it harder for someone to
>  fix it by making them go hack tunefs :-).  Unix traditionally allows
>  the user to do silly things.  Of course, this isn't documented as a
>  silly thing; that should probably be fixed.

It used to be documented (I did it a few years ago) but somebody
decided that it wasn't nice of us to scare users and undocumented it.
As far as I know, it hasn't been fixed - ask Kirk, he should know.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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