[Parted-maintainers] Bug#762236: parted: [kfreebsd] use of kern.geom.debugflags is unsafe

[Steven Chamberlain]

severity 762236 important
tags 762236 + moreinfo unreproducible
thanks

Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> I found during d-i testing, that ZFS pools sometimes suffer I/O errors
> and go offline;  this causes partman-zfs to hang.

I haven't seen this bug occur in a while.  It could be either fixed
somehow or less probable than I thought.

> I suspect that in non-interactive situations, using parted to merely
> view the partition table could crash active, mounted filesystems on that
> disk.

I wasn't able to trigger that in testing yet, so I'm tentatively
lowering severity.  Will revisit this if it's reproducible again.

Regards,
-- 
Steven Chamberlain
steven at pyro.eu.org