Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 22:32:20 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: phk@freebsd.org Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/disklabel disklabel.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0301262230140.84307-100000@root.org> In-Reply-To: <11536.1043620366@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 phk@freebsd.org wrote: > Robert Watson writes: > >We've always had a problem with ioctl's operating on storage devices > >regardless of the open mode (and permitted access modes) for the devidce > >nodes. > > And it ain't going to get any better as we get more weird "disks" > in the GEOM framwork. I'm not sure why boot block/disk label writes can't be done as ordinary writes and semantic checking performed by whichever GEOM layer thinks it knows best about that portion of a disk. What is wrong with that approach? -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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