geom and removable media

Paul Schenkeveld freebsd at psconsult.nl
Thu Apr 7 12:51:00 UTC 2011


On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 10:10:58AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <4D9D7EEB.3080607 at FreeBSD.org>, Andriy Gapon writes:
> 
> >Which I
> >don't think would a right thing in the current world order where /dev/cdX
> >represents both the drive and its media.
> 
> You can create the new /dev/cdX right away, so there is no real window of
> inconsistency.
> 
> And good observation btw, it was a big mistake to use the same /dev
> entry for both drive and media, but waaay to late to fix it now.

/dev/cd0.ctl ?

Regards,

Paul Schenkeveld


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