From owner-freebsd-fs Tue Jan 28 14: 6: 8 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BA5B37B401 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:06:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from tolkor.sgi.com (tolkor.sgi.com [198.149.18.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F70F43E4A for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:06:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cattelan@thebarn.com) Received: from ledzep.americas.sgi.com (ledzep.americas.sgi.com [192.48.203.134]) by tolkor.sgi.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/linux-outbound_gateway-1.2) with ESMTP id h0SKB5kq019782 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:11:05 -0600 Received: from daisy-e236.americas.sgi.com (daisy-e236.americas.sgi.com [128.162.236.214]) by ledzep.americas.sgi.com (SGI-8.9.3/americas-smart-nospam1.1) with ESMTP id OAA85232 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:02:44 -0600 (CST) Received: from [128.162.233.73] (naboo.americas.sgi.com [128.162.233.73]) by daisy-e236.americas.sgi.com (SGI-8.9.3/SGI-server-1.8) with ESMTP id OAA30079 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:02:44 -0600 (CST) Subject: restricted blocks? From: Russell Cattelan To: fs@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1043784569.20928.58.camel@naboo.americas.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.0 Date: 28 Jan 2003 14:09:30 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Does anybody have quick answer as to why block 1 isn't writable? naboo[6:24pm]#dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1s1d bs=512 oseek=0 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 512 bytes transferred in 0.000575 secs (890518 bytes/sec) naboo[6:24pm]#dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1s1d bs=512 oseek=1 count=1 dd: /dev/da1s1d: Operation not permitted 1+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.000819 secs (0 bytes/sec) naboo[6:24pm]#dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1s1d bs=512 oseek=2 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 512 bytes transferred in 0.000507 secs (1009630 bytes/sec) XFS uses this location for one of it's meta data block. -- Russell Cattelan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message