Re: where does one find glibc for /usr/compat/linux/lib ?

2006-06-19 Thread Pablo Marín Ramón
> I looked at a few of the emulator/linux* ports, and it was not in > their pkg-plist files, only something in their usr/sbin > (glibc_post_upgrad), which, when ran, does not generate a glibc that I > can find in the any of BSDs lib directories, or the compat/linux/lib, > compat/linux/usr/lib eithe

Re: FFS data integrity

2006-06-18 Thread Pablo Marín Ramón
> The short answer is that fsck can detect the bad inodes and fix or > delete them. Assuming no programming errors, you don't have to worry > about a file containing bogus data after fsck has run. Unfortunately, > if write-caching is enabled on your hard drive (and it probably is, > for speed), t

FFS data integrity

2006-06-16 Thread Pablo Marín Ramón
Here goes a newbie question about classical FFS (without softupdates). As metadata is updated synchronously, can an i-node, at some point, end pointing to not written yet data blocks? Is this a security risk, i.e., can those pointed to data blocks pertain to another user's deleted on memory but no