Is growfs(8) safe?
Lev Serebryakov
lev at FreeBSD.org
Tue Aug 23 20:23:17 UTC 2011
Hello, Freebsd-fs.
Is growfs(8) safe now? I remember, there were some problems with
non-zeroed data, but it seems to be fixed.
But it HAS one bug for sure: "int p_size," which overflows on big
FSes. It is in sectors, and 32 bit signed, so max value is only
slightly less than 1Tb (!)
I've fixed it (PR will be a bit later), but I'm not sure, is it
only bug in such important utility?
Does somebody use it? Or everybody migrate to ZFS already?
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// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev at FreeBSD.org>
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