On Apr 3, 2011, at 12:06 PM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > 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.
And if I pop out the SD card and flip the switch, what then? Warner _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
