on 08/04/2011 15:36 Andrew Duane said the following: > What I was hoping to do was design a better mechanism for passing that R/O > detection from the device to the filesystem code. Our implementation uses a > platform sysctl that checks the incoming device name against some hardware or > software settings. Ick. I don't know enough about device/GEOM calls to do it > better though.
I am actually not aware of any way to inquiry write-protection status from hardware. There are distinct SCSI sense codes for that, but you get them only after a failed write attempt. But there are many things that I don't know about... -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
