From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 17 17:37: 7 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F14937B401 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:37:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from spork.pantherdragon.org (spork.pantherdragon.org [206.29.168.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89CEB43F75 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:36:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmp@pantherdragon.org) Received: from sparx.techno.pagans (12-224-208-117.client.attbi.com [12.224.208.117]) by spork.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1C561005F; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:36:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from pantherdragon.org (speck.techno.pagans [172.21.42.2]) by sparx.techno.pagans (Postfix) with ESMTP id CABC7AA8F; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:36:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3E518E2C.9080103@pantherdragon.org> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:36:44 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: phk@phk.freebsd.dk Cc: Joerg Wunsch , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems creating and writing to disk slices References: <20362.1045521803@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <20362.1045521803@critter.freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG phk@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: > In message <200302172230.h1HMU7o8046220@uriah.heep.sax.de>, Joerg Wunsch writes: > >>Darren Pilgrim wrote: >> >> >>>The above practices have worked fine for a long time in 4.x and still do >>>even in 4.7p4, which is on this same machine. >> >>Get Matthew N. Dodd's patch at: >> >>ftp://ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/patches/geom-foot.patch >> >>(Hint: sysctl kern.geom.allow_foot_shooting=1) >> >>Then help me convincing phk that there might be legitimate needs >>for such an option. :-/ I can understand the usefulness of preventing modifications applying to mounted partitions, and I can see the logic in unliaterally preventing them, but preventing modifying slice table and disk label entries for unmounted portions of the disk gets more in the way than helps. Does this safety measure prevent slicing and labeling a completely empty disk or just those with the boot partition or mounted filesystems on them? > You're out of date, one such has been committed to current. Is the patch appropriate for RELENG_5_0, though? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message