From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 22 21:57:05 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A792F1065670 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:57:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scode@scode.org) Received: from mail-ww0-f54.google.com (mail-ww0-f54.google.com [74.125.82.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 105608FC1D for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:57:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwa36 with SMTP id 36so5829383wwa.13 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:57:03 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: scode@scode.org Received: by 10.216.50.11 with HTTP; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:57:03 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [213.114.159.107] In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:57:03 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 9901e2c13da7e472 Received: by 10.216.90.73 with SMTP id d51mr3146247wef.31.1271973423712; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:57:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: From: Peter Schuller To: Freddie Cash Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern.geom.debugflags=16 does NOT allow me to write to device X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:57:05 -0000 > (I could pop it out of geom/zfs temporarily and hope the other disk > doesn't go. But as a matter of principle I don't want to go that > route...) Well, for now I went with that option anyway (zpool offline, gmirror remove, glabel stop, then disklabel, then zpool online etc). It would be interesting to hear though if there is a technical reason why the foot shooting flag does not apply to non-rank providers. If I'm missing something please enlighten me, but the particular use case of writing a boot strap on a slice is presumably not very unusual at all so I think it is something that ought to be possible to do. -- / Peter Schuller