GEOM weirdness with SD flash reader?

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Mon Jul 2 03:56:29 UTC 2007


In message: <46880F1C.3020602 at root.org>
            Nate Lawson <nate at root.org> writes:
: Yes, you're exactly right.  However, shouldn't a read from a device
: trigger a re-taste if the media is removable?

I don't think it does.  The driver is expected to poll, however...

: So the fdisk of da2
: should have caused it to re-read the MBR and create /dev/da2s1.  I think
: maybe there should be a flag set for devices with removable media that
: causes the device to be re-tasted on every mount request.

Is there even a removable flag to disks?

: Other ideas how to fix this?

Unsure.

Warner


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