Re: kern/40470: WAPBL corrupts ext2fs

[Mindaugas Rasiukevicius <rmind%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/40470; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mindaugas Rasiukevicius <rmind%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: Greg Oster <oster%cs.usask.ca@localhost>, 
kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost,
 gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/40470: WAPBL corrupts ext2fs
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:25:02 +0000

 Greg Oster <oster%cs.usask.ca@localhost> wrote:
 >  > >Description:
 >  > Kernel compiled with WAPBL option corrupts ext2 file systems.
 >  > Maybe some incorrectly handled hook in UFS layer?
 >  > >How-To-Repeat:
 >  > Perform some work on ext2 file system, eg. compile.
 >  > Check the file-system consistency (or even file contents).
 >  > >Fix:
 >  > Workaround: compile kernel without WAPBL option.
 >  
 >  Was / mounted as a log filesystem?
 >  
 
 Yes. It seems that without "log" for / it is fine (have not done extensive
 testing, though). Do you know the problem?
 
 >  Later...
 >  
 >  Greg Oster
 
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 Best regards,
 Mindaugas