Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 13:17:46 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp), msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Add new slice to running system, comments? Message-ID: <199601082117.NAA01757@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Jan 96 13:10:33 MST." <199601082010.NAA10288@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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>> > That still doesn't achieve what I want, which is for 'native' FreeBSD >> > disk slices to be able to exist _inside_ a FAT filesystem. >> >> Yes in fact it would. >> >> It is the only way to avoid the terrible problems you get into if for >> instance I >> rm -f /dos/C/WINDOWS.SWP >> while you swap on it. > >Shouldn't this (well, loose meaning of "should" in this case, since I don't >agree with half of the VEXEC crap) result in an EBUSY? No. VEXEC only means that you can't write to it. Doing an rm just marks the file for delete since it is still open by something else. This is the desired behavior. -DG David Greenman Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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