Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 19:01:48 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch to allow a driver to report unrecoverable write errors to the buf layer Message-ID: <94802.1035914508@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:47:24 %2B0100." <20021029184724.A1682@gicco.homeip.net>
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In message <20021029184724.A1682@gicco.homeip.net>, Hanspeter Roth writes: > On Oct 29 at 18:34, Poul-Henning Kamp spoke: > >> That's a slightly more involved issue because you would have to >> actually try to write to it before you find out that you can't. > >Isn't there a means to determine the state of the protection before >the mount is attempted? As far as I know there isn't. I'm not sure if it is a device driver (morituri te salutem!) or hardware issue. -- 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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