Well, there *are* workarounds, but I agree that this is broken. I think we
had better fix disklabel somehow. I'm just wary of leaping in to 'do it',
because I'm sure I'll break more than I fix.
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 02:50:43AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > (5) The whole disk slice was broken for alphas in rev.1.63 of
> > subr_diskslice.c, by putting a label on it if the underlying disk
> > contains a label. The underlying disk contains a label in the
> > "dangerously dedicated case". If there is a label, then it is
> > initially write protected, and always snooped on. This closes
> > the back door in (4).
>
> How do we fix this problem? I keeps from from
> ``dd if=/dev/da1 of=/dev/da2'' ?? I was very peeved at having to put the
> disks on a Solaris box to do such a normal Unix task.
>
> --
> -- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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