Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:46:23 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: retasting devices on demand Message-ID: <44EB6D1F.90104@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <60561.1156275785@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <60561.1156275785@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On 08/22/06 14:43, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <44EB5CE4.5080008@centtech.com>, Eric Anderson writes: > >>> The easy way is to open the device for write and close it again: >>> >>> true > /dev/da0 >>> >>> would do it. >> Yep, that did it. I think I tried touch (or maybe something else) >> before and it didn't tickle it, so I moved on. >> >> Might be more intuitive for admins to use a retaste command with the >> given tool or geom command line. Is that function left out for a >> reason, or just hasn't been implemented yet? > > The problem is that it won't work if part of the disk is already > open... > I guess there's no way around this, except for maybe setting the debugflags? Even so, a retaste function that worked on existing disks (like I had) would be useful and an obvious command for admin-types. Would you be opposed to such a command? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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