Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:39:48 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> Cc: Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> Subject: Re: random problem with 8.3 from yesterday Message-ID: <4F4811B4.4000701@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1330100633.7317.41.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> References: <201202221334.36484.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> <64FF3DF7-6EEA-480D-85AA-5784AF013EA8@lassitu.de> <201202241350.56933.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> <1330100633.7317.41.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
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on 24/02/2012 18:23 Ian Lepore said the following: > I've always > suspected something in the geom layer isn't noticing that a CF or SD > card in the reader got removed/inserted/reformatted, and un-/re-plugging > the whole reader (making the cam layer destroy and recreate the devices) > makes geom aware of the change. This is a fact, actually. Nothing in GEOM layer (and below it) notices a silent card change, since most hardware doesn't have any notification for the change and FreeBSD disk stack doesn't do any polling for changes. -- Andriy Gapon
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