From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 7 23:03:58 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F2AD106564A; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 23:03:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF2078FC12; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 23:03:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id p97N3vYV004335; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 17:03:57 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id p97N3uIH004332; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 17:03:56 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 17:03:56 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Poul-Henning Kamp In-Reply-To: <4360.1318021854@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: References: <4360.1318021854@critter.freebsd.dk> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:03:57 -0600 (MDT) Cc: Garrett Cooper , Glen Barber , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Benjamin Kaduk , Arnaud Lacombe Subject: Re: aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:03:58 -0000 On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message , Warren Block writes: >> >> Followed by removing the memory stick without unmounting it to avoid >> overwriting part of the image. No obvious problems, but no, it's not >> polite. (I'm thinking "automounter" here.) > > And you are sure the stick now contains what you expect ? > > If the dirty filesystem had blocks to write, it might have done so... > > debugflags are called debugflags for a reason: You should never > need them, unless you are debugging a problem. Testing with md5 showed it was okay, but point taken.