looking for error codes

[Andrew Duane]

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.

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Andrew Duane             Juniper Networks
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aduane at juniper.net      Westford, MA  01886-3418

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From: owner-freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org [owner-freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Warner Losh [imp at bsdimp.com]
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


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