On 23-Apr-01 Ian Dowse wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warner Losh
> writes:
>>: 
>>: Yes, but until such time as we do that we should warn people in UPDATING at
>>: least.
>>: 
>>
>>OK, but you won't like the UPDATING entry.
> 
> The bug actually looks fairly simple to fix. ffs_reload() isn't
> checking if the new superblock fields are zero, so if an old fsck
> zeros them out between a read-oly mount and a read-write remount,
> then we get a division by zero or something later.

Fair enough, I guess ffs_reload() should just sanity check the values.  Any
takers?

> Ian

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