Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:43:05 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: retasting devices on demand Message-ID: <60561.1156275785@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:37:08 EST." <44EB5CE4.5080008@centtech.com>
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In message <44EB5CE4.5080008@centtech.com>, Eric Anderson writes: >> The easy way is to open the device for write and close it again: >> >> true > /dev/da0 >> >> would do it. > >Yep, that did it. I think I tried touch (or maybe something else) >before and it didn't tickle it, so I moved on. > >Might be more intuitive for admins to use a retaste command with the >given tool or geom command line. Is that function left out for a >reason, or just hasn't been implemented yet? The problem is that it won't work if part of the disk is already open... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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