Determining disk device and kicking GEOM when doing
automaticmounting of umass devices
Norbert Koch
NKoch at demig.de
Fri Jun 10 06:23:33 GMT 2005
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Dag-Erling
> Smørgrav
> Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 8:03 AM
> To: Darren Pilgrim
> Cc: freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Determining disk device and kicking GEOM when doing
> automaticmounting of umass devices
>
>
> "Darren Pilgrim" <dmp at bitfreak.org> writes:
> > GEOM doesn't automatically read the partition table and create the
> > slice device [...]
>
> Yes, it does. When the umassX provider shows up, GEOM immediately
> tastes it and creates geoms for the individual slices.
>
>From what I've seen, it doesn't.
After attaching a memory stick I only see "da0".
I then call mount_msdosfs on "da0", which fails
expectedly. Only then I see "da0s1", which I can mount.
But I didn't test this against the very latest 5-stable.
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