SU+J on 9.1-RC2 ISO

[Bas Smeelen]

On 11/02/2012 07:31 PM, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 12:27:18AM +0700, Adam Strohl wrote:
>> On 11/3/2012 0:13, Mike Jakubik wrote:
>>> You can disable SU+J after installing, though it would be nice if the
>>> installer gave you a choice.
>> This assumes that you know about this flaw, which most people do not.
>>
>> I didn't until I discovered it by panic-ing a perfectly fine running
>> server.  Getting burned by a known bug like this shouldn't be "SOP"
>> for users of FreeBSD.
>>
> Currently when you try to take a snapshot, the kernel checks whether SUJ
> is enabled on specified mount-point, and if yes it returns EOPNOTSUPP.
>
> See this commit (MFCed as r230725):
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=230250
>
> So it's not that bad.

How about more installs on SSD and the hint about this in the 
bsdinstaller source?



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