Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:31:21 +0200 From: Dario Freni <saturnero@freesbie.org> To: "Christian S.J. Peron" <csjp@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, pjd@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mdconfig recently broken? Message-ID: <43139AC9.50705@freesbie.org> In-Reply-To: <20050829214131.GA2855@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <20050829205638.GA2458@freefall.freebsd.org> <20050829214131.GA2855@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Christian S.J. Peron wrote:
>>Hi everybody,
>>due to limited connectivity in August, I've been able to
>>update my -CURRENT box only yesterday since the first days of August
>>(iirc).
>>
>>I noticed that mdconfig -a -t vnode -f ${myfile} isn't working anymore
>>when ${myfile} is on a read-only filesystem:
>>
>>sberta:/usr/local/freesbie-clone/uzip# mdconfig -a -t vnode -f usr.uzip
>>md0
>>sberta:/usr/local/freesbie-clone/uzip# mdconfig -d -u 0
>>sberta:/usr/local/freesbie-clone/uzip# mount -fru /usr
>>sberta:/usr/local/freesbie-clone/uzip# mdconfig -a -t vnode -f usr.uzip
>>mdconfig: ioctl(/dev/mdctl): Read-only file system
>>
>>This makes impossible to use compressed filesystems on devices like
>>cdrom or read-only diskless environment. Any idea? I'm using:
>>
>>FreeBSD sberta.saturnero.sat 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #2: Sat Aug 27 18:1
>>5:39 CEST 2005 satu at sberta.saturnero.sat:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SBERTA i386
>>sberta:/usr/local/freesbie-clone/uzip#
>>
>>Bye and thanks in advance,
>>Dario
>>
>
>
> Come to think about it, -o readonly isnt going to help. the bottom line is,
> if the backing store is readonly, it should never be possible to write to it.
-o readonly seems to help:
# mdconfig -a -t vnode -f usr.uzip
mdconfig: ioctl(/dev/mdctl): Read-only file system
# mdconfig -a -t vnode -o readonly -f usr.uzip
md0
Anyway, imho, the readonly option should be automatically set if the
backing store is readonly. Otherwise, this behaviour should be well
documented in mdconfig(8) and/or md(4).
Bye and thanks,
Dario
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Dario Freni (saturnero@freesbie.org)
FreeSBIE developer (http://www.freesbie.org)
GPG Public key at http://www.saturnero.net/saturnero.asc
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