Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 12:45:23 -0400 From: Andrew Duane <aduane@juniper.net> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" <freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org>, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>, "freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: retry mounting with ro when rw fails Message-ID: <AC6674AB7BC78549BB231821ABF7A9AEB52FD949F6@EMBX01-WF.jnpr.net> In-Reply-To: <4D9F286B.4010102@FreeBSD.org> References: <4D9DF375.4080506@FreeBSD.org> <BANLkTimAyh4-T0gQ1cuQn0nm8m7SHwW5iA@mail.gmail.com> <20110408000025.GA16252@icarus.home.lan> <4D9EF55C.5070300@FreeBSD.org> <20110408214920.I1265@besplex.bde.org> <AC6674AB7BC78549BB231821ABF7A9AEB52FD945A8@EMBX01-WF.jnpr.net> <4D9F286B.4010102@FreeBSD.org>
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For SCSI-attached disks, yes. But other hardware has write-protect sensing = (SD cards, CD-roms, our platform). So if you can do that, you should Cleaning up after a failed write is a real problem, one that I needed to av= oid.=20 /Andrew =20 -----Original Message----- From: Andriy Gapon [mailto:avg@FreeBSD.org]=20 Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 11:23 AM To: Andrew Duane Cc: Bruce Evans; freebsd-fs@freebsd.org; FreeBSD Hackers; freebsd-scsi@Free= BSD.org Subject: Re: retry mounting with ro when rw fails on 08/04/2011 15:36 Andrew Duane said the following: > What I was hoping to do was design a better mechanism for passing that R/= O > detection from the device to the filesystem code. Our implementation uses= a > platform sysctl that checks the incoming device name against some hardwar= e or > software settings. Ick. I don't know enough about device/GEOM calls to do= it > better though. I am actually not aware of any way to inquiry write-protection status from hardware. There are distinct SCSI sense codes for that, but you get them o= nly after a failed write attempt. But there are many things that I don't know about... --=20 Andriy Gapon
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