Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:05:18 -0500 From: Duane Winner <duanewinner@att.net> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: GEOM: create disk during runtime? (security run output) Message-ID: <419E19BE.20007@att.net>
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Hello, I'm hoping somebody on this list can shed some light on this. My boss sent me a copy of his daily cron security run output, which contained this: localhost.local kernel log messages: GEOM: create disk ad0 dp=0xc6b77d60 GEOM: create disk cd0 dp=0xc69a8600 We're all running FreeBSD 5.2.1-p12. I've seen the "GEOM: create disk" messages plenty of times on boot and in my dmesg's, but never really paid much attention to them, since I don't really understand how GEOM works or how to interpret these kinds of messages. But I don't recall ever seeing it in a security run cronjob. My first question is "why is this happening during a security run cronjob? If this system is already booted and running, why is GEOM creating disks?" My second question is "is this something bad? Is it a red flag?" The only reasonable (and non-threatening) answer I could come up with is maybe it's because the machine went into or came out of suspend mode near the time the cronjob ran. (APM) The bottom line is I don't really know anything about GEOM, and would like to know what this means so preventative action can be taken if necessary. Thanks for any info, Duane
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