From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Jul 24 7:29: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from aldan.algebra.com (aldan.algebra.com [216.254.65.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6764D37B410; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 07:28:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mi@aldan.algebra.com) Received: from aldan.algebra.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aldan.algebra.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f6OESiY43239; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:28:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mi@aldan.algebra.com) Message-Id: <200107241428.f6OESiY43239@aldan.algebra.com> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:28:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikhail Teterin Subject: Re: bin/7756: disklabel misbehaving on seriously sick disks To: mike@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <200107232345.f6NNjDS02085@freefall.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 23 Jul, mike@FreeBSD.org wrote: > Synopsis: disklabel misbehaving on seriously sick disks > > State-Changed-From-To: closed->suspended > State-Changed-By: mike > State-Changed-When: Mon Jul 23 16:43:14 PDT 2001 > State-Changed-Why: > > Re-opened at the originator's request. I don't see how we can fix this > problem with the amount of details in the PR, but the originator seems > to think so. Awaiting fix and committer. The disklabel(8) should be modified, so that when -w is used, the disk is NOT read prior to writing. In my PR, the work around is documented: dd if=/dev/zero ... It should not be neccessary, AFAIU. Thanks for reopening, although, I don't see, why it is being suspended -- it is hardly even analyzed :) -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message