Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 22:59:17 +0100
From: phk@freebsd.org
To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc: hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com (George Hartzell), Daniel Lang <langd-freebsd-hackers@leo.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Problem opening /dev/ad0{,s2} O_RDWR (also disklabel, grub) on 5.0.
Message-ID: <10923.1043618357@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 26 Jan 2003 10:13:28 PST." <20030126181328.26F172A89E@canning.wemm.org>
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In message <20030126181328.26F172A89E@canning.wemm.org>, Peter Wemm writes: >Yes, this is a not-quite-yet resolved side effect of GEOM that is due to be >fixed any minute now. Geom is overly protective when partitions are open >and mounted. Geom is not overly protective, it only protects what it has to, the problem is that BSD labels have their meta-data in-band, and therefore the necessary protection becomes intrusive. Anyway, I belive I have just committed a working ioctl to the system so that the boot code can be replaced while the disk is active. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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