aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Fri Oct 7 23:03:58 UTC 2011


On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110071352210.2450 at wonkity.com>, Warren Block writes:
>>
>> Followed by removing the memory stick without unmounting it to avoid
>> overwriting part of the image.  No obvious problems, but no, it's not
>> polite.  (I'm thinking "automounter" here.)
>
> And you are sure the stick now contains what you expect ?
>
> If the dirty filesystem had blocks to write, it might have done so...
>
> debugflags are called debugflags for a reason:  You should never
> need them, unless you are debugging a problem.

Testing with md5 showed it was okay, but point taken.


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