Re: writing to mbr under GEOM

[Matthew N. Dodd]

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Ray Kohler wrote:
 What's the status of the issue where devices with open partitions can't
 have their boot sectors written to? I know phk@ was working on it a
 while back but it's something I'd like to see fixed soon, maybe before
 release?

I've been using the following:

ftp://ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/patches/geom-foot.patch

Set the sysctl 'kern.geom.allow_foot_shooting' to 1 and cross your
fingers.  Most of the time accessing an already open device is harmless
but I've encountered panics a few times.  YMMV

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writing to mbr under GEOM

[Ray Kohler]

What's the status of the issue where devices with open partitions can't
have their boot sectors written to? I know phk@ was working on it a
while back but it's something I'd like to see fixed soon, maybe before
release?

~  9:14PM % sudo fdisk -B ad0
fdisk: can't open device /dev/ad0
fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/ad0: Operation not permitted
zsh: 13660 exit 1 sudo fdisk -B ad0
~  9:25PM % sudo fdisk -i ad0
fdisk: can't open device /dev/ad0
fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/ad0: Operation not permitted
zsh: 13661 exit 1 sudo fdisk -i ad0

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