From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 5 15: 3:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 733ED14C2F for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 15:03:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA28194; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 15:03:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA74147; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 15:03:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 15:03:21 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Bruce Evans Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disklabel -W now seems to not work(?) Message-ID: <19991205150321.B74087@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from bde@zeta.org.au on Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 02:50:43AM +1100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 02:50:43AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > (5) The whole disk slice was broken for alphas in rev.1.63 of > subr_diskslice.c, by putting a label on it if the underlying disk > contains a label. The underlying disk contains a label in the > "dangerously dedicated case". If there is a label, then it is > initially write protected, and always snooped on. This closes > the back door in (4). How do we fix this problem? I keeps from from ``dd if=/dev/da1 of=/dev/da2'' ?? I was very peeved at having to put the disks on a Solaris box to do such a normal Unix task. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message