Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 15:17:58 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disklabel -W now seems to not work(?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912051517160.2157-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <19991205150321.B74087@dragon.nuxi.com>
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Well, there *are* workarounds, but I agree that this is broken. I think we had better fix disklabel somehow. I'm just wary of leaping in to 'do it', because I'm sure I'll break more than I fix. On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 02:50:43AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > > (5) The whole disk slice was broken for alphas in rev.1.63 of > > subr_diskslice.c, by putting a label on it if the underlying disk > > contains a label. The underlying disk contains a label in the > > "dangerously dedicated case". If there is a label, then it is > > initially write protected, and always snooped on. This closes > > the back door in (4). > > How do we fix this problem? I keeps from from > ``dd if=/dev/da1 of=/dev/da2'' ?? I was very peeved at having to put the > disks on a Solaris box to do such a normal Unix task. > > -- > -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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