AFAIK, FreeBSD does not really detect read-only media. This was something I had to add as a small project here at work, and was considering cleaning up to try to get into CURRENT. If there's a real need for it, I could speed that up.
-- Andrew Duane Juniper Networks 978-589-0551 10 Technology Park Dr [email protected] Westford, MA 01886-3418 ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Warner Losh [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 10:51 AM To: Andriy Gapon Cc: FreeBSD Hackers; FreeBSD Arch Subject: Re: looking for error codes On Apr 1, 2011, at 8:29 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > I am looking for error codes that would unambiguously signal that a disk > drive has > readonly or write-protected media and that disk drive has no media at the > moment. > I foresee these error codes being used mostly between disk peripheral drivers > and > filesystem drivers. > > I will appreciate your suggestions. > > P.S. > I see that Linux uses EROFS and ENOMEDIUM for these purposes. > I am not sure about EROFS in this role. > And we don't have ENOMEDIUM (nor EMEDIUMTYPE). Maybe we could add ENOMEDIA for that (spelled however Linux spells it) after EDAVE. Warner _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
