From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 29 9:47:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2823737B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:47:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from gicco.homeip.net (dclient80-218-75-109.hispeed.ch [80.218.75.109]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0832643E7B for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:47:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hampi@rootshell.be) Received: (from idefix@localhost) by gicco.homeip.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g9THlOG01710 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:47:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from hampi@rootshell.be) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:47:24 +0100 From: Hanspeter Roth To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch to allow a driver to report unrecoverable write errors to the buf layer Message-ID: <20021029184724.A1682@gicco.homeip.net> Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20021029182712.A1479@gicco.homeip.net> <94460.1035912876@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <94460.1035912876@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 06:34:36PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Oct 29 at 18:34, Poul-Henning Kamp spoke: > That's a slightly more involved issue because you would have to > actually try to write to it before you find out that you can't. Isn't there a means to determine the state of the protection before the mount is attempted? -Hanspeter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message