On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 02:50:43AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> (5) The whole disk slice was broken for alphas in rev.1.63 of 
>     subr_diskslice.c, by putting a label on it if the underlying disk
>     contains a label.  The underlying disk contains a label in the
>     "dangerously dedicated case".  If there is a label, then it is
>     initially write protected, and always snooped on.  This closes
>     the back door in (4).

How do we fix this problem?  I keeps from from
``dd if=/dev/da1 of=/dev/da2'' ??  I was very peeved at having to put the
disks on a Solaris box to do such a normal Unix task.

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-- David    ([EMAIL PROTECTED])


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