Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:30:10 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: non@ever.sanda.gr.jp, current@FreeBSD.ORG, trevor@jpj.net, akiyama@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: od driver for -CURRENT Message-ID: <200102122130.f1CLUBO30791@aslan.scsiguy.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Feb 2001 21:25:43 GMT." <20010212212543.H35416@hand.dotat.at>
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>"Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com> wrote: >> >>It is not necessarily sufficient since the media may be changed after >>open on certain types of devices that don't have a media lock. > >But don't you risk a panic if you do that? By pulling the media out and flipping off the hardware write protect? Even pulling out the media for a valid filesystem shouldn't panic. All I/O to that volume should fail and your system may become next to useless, but the system shouldn't panic. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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