In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Wemm writes:
>Yes, this is a not-quite-yet resolved side effect of GEOM that is due to be >fixed any minute now. Geom is overly protective when partitions are open >and mounted. Geom is not overly protective, it only protects what it has to, the problem is that BSD labels have their meta-data in-band, and therefore the necessary protection becomes intrusive. Anyway, I belive I have just committed a working ioctl to the system so that the boot code can be replaced while the disk is active. -- 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
