geom and removable media

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu Apr 7 00:26:49 UTC 2011


In message <4D9C7B52.5010207 at FreeBSD.org>, Andriy Gapon writes:

>Suppose we implemented a mechanism to detect removal or change of removable media
>(e.g. for optical discs in cd drives).  How to signal media removal (or change)?
>Destroy the existing and create a new disk(9)?
>Or do some sort of geom spoil on it?

Basically yes.

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