On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 03:38:11PM +0200, Maxime Villard wrote: > [...] > With a broken superblock the kernel will read far beyond the allocated > area, which mostly means it will crash.
Sure. There's lot of other ways to crash the kernel with a broken ffs. In this specific case it's OK to return an error, but in the general case I prefer to have the kernel panic when an inconsistency is detected in ffs, than return an error and try to continue running with a bogus filesystem. -- Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]> NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference --
