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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