On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 06:18:54PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 01/04/2011 18:04 Andrew Duane said the following: > > 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. > > > > Yes, that's exactly the problem that I am looking at. > So if you have anything to share it will be greatly appreciated at least by > me. > But I think many more people could benefit from it (e.g. those having > SD/SDHC/etc > cards).
Once you detect read-only media, I suggest to implement the support by adding new DISKFLAG_READONLY to disk(9) API and simply deny write access in g_disk_access() when DISKFLAG_READONLY is set. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheelsystems.com FreeBSD committer http://www.FreeBSD.org Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! http://yomoli.com
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