Precaution!

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Mon May 5 16:29:53 PDT 2003


On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 11:26:25AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> If you booted a kernel from approximately April 15th through May 3th,
> there were a number of small, but critical, vm bugs.  This can cause
> file system corruption, and leave silent landmines for later.  It is
> recommended that if you did boot these kernels, you build a newer
> kernel, come up in single user and force an fsck on all filesystems.
> This is to prevent 'false' panics later that are a result of the
> corruption that might be dormant in them now.

Thanks for the notification.

Kris
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