aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags

Andrey V. Elsukov bu7cher at yandex.ru
Tue Oct 25 04:34:08 UTC 2011


On 25.10.2011 5:18, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
>>>  to allow writing to the MBR, and restore it to 0 afterwards.
>>
>> This is stale message. boot0cfg might work without this.
> 
> On a *mounted* disk? Surely that qualifies as an "open" for the purposes of the check.

Yes. boot0cfg uses GEOM_PART' control interface and it may write bootcode to the "open" disk.
Actually i found bug here and now it is fixed in r226714.

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov

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