In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= wr ites: >"Poul-Henning Kamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Long writes: >> > But then why not have g_access be able to communicate the ability to >> > access the device independent from the ability to access the media? >> > Seems like both of these questions are "access" questions. >> Because that is a lot more work for no benefit I can see ? > >There is another closely related problem which also needs fixing and >which also requires GEOM to distinguish between device and media: GEOM's >behaviour when the media changes while the device is open (e.g. burning >a CD). AFAIK, it is not currently possible to properly fixate a CD-R in >FreeBSD; the CDRIOCFIXATE ioctl always fails because once the media has >changed (from blank to non-blank), all access fails until you close and >reopen the device.
This is so CD specific that somehow it must be managed inside the driver. -- 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]"
