John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday 07 February 2007 18:29, Nate Lawson wrote: >> I assume phk@ is referring to the geom debug flags sysctl. The problem >> with that approach is that it disabled (and potentially left disabled if >> the flag wasn't cleared as the tool exits) all protection for the >> devnode behind the mounted drive. If something else was running at the >> same time, it could overwrite any data on the devnode. Or the fdisk >> tool could write anywhere in the device, not just the boot sector. > > No, fdisk and bsdlabel don't frob the sysctl, they talk directly to GEOM to > update the stuff as well using MBR-specific or BSD label-specific requests.
Sorry, I was thinking of sysinstall. -- Nate _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
