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Date:      Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:59:10 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: letting glabel recognise a media change
Message-ID:  <i81n15$92u$1@dough.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <4CA3BD7C.9080306@feral.com>
References:  <20100929211253.GA1250@freebsd.org> <4CA3B393.8060206@icyb.net.ua> <4CA3BD7C.9080306@feral.com>

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On 09/30/10 00:28, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> On 9/29/2010 2:45 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> on 30/09/2010 00:12 Alexander Best said the following:
>>> hi there,
>>>
>>> i wanted to ask if it would be possible to asjust glabel so that e.g.
>>> inserting
>>> a new media into a dvd-drive gets recognised and glabel displays the
>>> lablel
>>> right away.
>> Yes, of course, as soon as we have in kernel a programmatic way to
>> know that
>> media as changed.
>> We don't have one right now...
>>
>
> What announcement API would you like to add?
>
> If something like that was in place, I assure you that things would
> start to use it very quickly.

It doesn't have to be a heavy "announcement API". Basically, something 
would have to re-trigger GEOM tasting on existing devices, probably by 
marking them "spoiled" first.




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