In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Long writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>> Well, there are two questions: media present (yes/no) and drive capable >>> of telling if media present without just trying to read it (yes/no). >> >> This risk reopening the old religious war if drivers should poll >> their drives to be up to date on media existence. > >This has nothing to do with polling, you're just trotting out an >irrelevant argument to divert attention. No, I merely pointed out that Nates worries had an obvious and widely accepted solution, which unfortunately is religiously unacceptable in certain parts of FreeBSD storage subsystems. For all I know, the problem sos@ has complained about has a solution that just needs somebody to change the relevant few lines of code. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
