Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:40:05 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Jaakko Heinonen <jh@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, filip.palian@pjwstk.edu.pl Subject: Re: [patch] md(4) and preloaded memory disks Message-ID: <12862.1352230805@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <20121106182752.GB2234@a91-153-116-96.elisa-laajakaista.fi> References: <20121106182752.GB2234@a91-153-116-96.elisa-laajakaista.fi>
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-------- In message <20121106182752.GB2234@a91-153-116-96.elisa-laajakaista.fi>, Jaakko Heinonen writes: >I plan to commit the patch below to disallow attaching preloaded memory >disks via ioctl. I didn't find anything that would really use this >undocumented feature. If I remember right, this was for the case where you had preloaded multiple images, and the kernel would only auto-discover the first one. All things (such as the disapperance of floppy disks), considered this feature should be removed. -- 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.
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