In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kenny Drobnack writes:
: Is some system call to check the hardware to see if its physically
: writable? I figure there is. I want to start hacking at the kernel a
: bit, and it seems like something simple (comparitively) would be a good
: place to start. Up there on my wish list is getting a journaling
: filesystem ported to FreeBSD.
This is a driver bug. The da driver, which deals with disks, doesn't
check to see if the media is writable or not before allowing r/w
mounts. You could short circuit the panic by fixing this.
Fixing the panic might be harder...
Warner
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