kern/139549: [firewire] reconnecting a firewire disk does not cause the disklabel to update correctly/invalidate the cache

[Sean Bruno]

The following reply was made to PR kern/139549; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sean Bruno <sean.bruno at dsl-only.net>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, dirkx at webweaving.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/139549: [firewire] reconnecting a firewire disk does not
 cause the disklabel to update correctly/invalidate the cache
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:08:03 -0700

 pre-8.0 has a default of "3" set to the sysctl "firewire.hold_count" or
 some such thing that keeps the disconnect/removal of a firewire device
 from doing "things".
 
 Try setting that value to "1" and see if the problem manifests itself.
 
 Sean