retasting devices on demand

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Aug 22 20:49:48 UTC 2006


In message <44EB6D1F.90104 at centtech.com>, Eric Anderson writes:

>Even so, a retaste function that worked on existing disks (like I had) 
>would be useful and an obvious command for admin-types.  Would you be 
>opposed to such a command?

As I said: the problem is that if part of the disk is open it will
not work.

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