Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:28:15 +0200 From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: bde@zeta.org.au Cc: mjacob@feral.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fatal flaw in diskcheckd... Message-ID: <64361.995534895@verdi.nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Jul 2001 19:01:03 %2B1000 (EST)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107191853450.1140-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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> > So, I took a SCSi disk away. Diskcheckd started complaining. However, > > a camcontrol rescan couldn't make the disk go away until I killed off > > diskcheckd, which then closed the disk, allowing the rescan to remove it. > > Bad. Bad. Bad. > > This may also have caused your disklabel problems. The old label doesn't > go away until all minors on the device are closed, at least when you clobber > the label using the dd hack. In some situations it would be very useful to be able to tell the kernel "forget all you ever knew about disklabel X". Any good mechanisms to do this today (other than reboot)? Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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