Access counts.

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20040917085744.GN30151 at darkness.comp.waw.pl>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek w
rites:

>Now, let's go back to George's problem. Gmirror detects da0s1 as a part
>of the mirror, it creates consumer, etc. Geom gives da0s1a for tasting.
>Gmirror opens it for reading, but da0s1 is opened r1w0e1.
>In the same time, gmirror's working thread wants to update metadata,
>but it cannot do this, because it cannot open da0s1 for writing,
>because it has exclusive bit already. In such situation gmirror
>disconnects this component.

Gmirror does something wrong.

You can upgrade your open from r1w0e1 to r1w1e1 if you want to.

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