Re: OpenBSD 3.5 & GNAT

[Craig Carey <research@ijs.co.nz>]

On 4 Jun 2004 10:43:17 GMT, Adrian Knoth <adi@thur.de> wrote:

>Craig Carey <research@ijs.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> I find my FreeBSD 5 system is auto-erasing. 
>
>Is what? It deletes itself?

Actually, all no data is lost since again FreeBSD got a corrupted BSD
disklabel. I suppose it could have been this FreeBSD 5.1 problem that
I informed the OpenBSD bugs list about.

>Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:24:35 +1300
>To: bugs@openbsd.org
>From: Craig Carey <research@ijs.co.nz>
>Subject: Re: fsck damages FreeBSD 5 disklabels ? 
>
>At 2003-08-13 23:39 -0600 Wednesday, Theo de Raadt wrote:
...
>>Hundreds of Unix operating systems ship with an fsck that will
>> not check that field.

However justifiying OpenBSD when trashing FreeBSD was mismatching
with the facts. In fact FreeBSD 5.1 was deleting its own filesystem.

...
>It turned out that OpenBSD was innocent. [...]
>The faulty binaries appeared in about 5 June 2003. Still they are
>not updated:
>  ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.1-RELEASE/
...
>(2) The FreeBSD 5.1 "bsdlabel" program can't read the disklabels
> correctly.
...
>Installing an v5.1 emergency repair system is a way to cause
>(seeming) destruction of the other FreeBSD UFS2 system.
>
>Buildworld removes the problem
  [if it completes]