Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:11:25 +0530 From: "Tapan Chaudhari" <tapan.list@gmail.com> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Can GEOM be used to intercept the I/o calls to an existing mounted device? Message-ID: <482257ad0807100541s2d2c3d1eo6cd57c3a1bc338d1@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi All,
I am a newbie to FreeBSD and GEOM. I wanted to intercept the i/o calls
going to a particular mounted device by writing some driver.
I came across geom and thought it might work. I tried to create a new
device, mount it and then tried using gmirror to mirror the device :-
#dd if=/dev/zero of=file1 bs=1M count=10
#dd if=/dev/zero of=file2 bs=1M count=10
#mdconfig -f file1
#mdconfig -f file2
#fdisk -B /dev/mirror/md0
#newfs /dev/mirror/md0s1
#mkdir /mnt/mirror0
#mount /dev/mirror/md0s1 /mnt/mirror0/
#gmirror label -v -n -b round-robin gm0 /dev/md0
gmirror: Can't store metadata on /dev/md0: Operation not permitted.
It gave me this error "gmirror: Can't store metadata on /dev/md0: Operation
not permitted."
Am I doing something wrong? Or GEOM does not permit me intercept the i/o
calls? If not geom, is there any other mechanism by which I can achieve it?
Thanks,
--Tapan.
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