From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 5 15:16:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EEBD14CA4; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 15:16:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA15076; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 15:17:58 -0800 Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 15:17:58 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Bruce Evans , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disklabel -W now seems to not work(?) In-Reply-To: <19991205150321.B74087@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, there *are* workarounds, but I agree that this is broken. I think we had better fix disklabel somehow. I'm just wary of leaping in to 'do it', because I'm sure I'll break more than I fix. On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 02:50:43AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > > (5) The whole disk slice was broken for alphas in rev.1.63 of > > subr_diskslice.c, by putting a label on it if the underlying disk > > contains a label. The underlying disk contains a label in the > > "dangerously dedicated case". If there is a label, then it is > > initially write protected, and always snooped on. This closes > > the back door in (4). > > How do we fix this problem? I keeps from from > ``dd if=/dev/da1 of=/dev/da2'' ?? I was very peeved at having to put the > disks on a Solaris box to do such a normal Unix task. > > -- > -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message