Milan Obuch wrote:
On Wednesday 22 July 2009 09:38:50 Ivan Voras wrote:
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After the CF card is plugged in:
$ ls -l /dev/ | grep da
crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 105 Jul 22 13:18 da0
crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 106 Jul 22 13:18 da1
crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 107 Jul 22 13:18 da2
crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 108 Jul 22 13:18 da3
After reboot while the CF card is plugged in:
$ ls -l /dev/ | grep da
crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 105 Jul 22 13:24 da0
crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 106 Jul 22 13:24 da1
crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 110 Jul 22 13:24 da1s1
crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 107 Jul 22 13:24 da2
crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 108 Jul 22 13:24 da3
My questions in this regards are:
1. Is this an error/bug in FreeBSD 7.2?
This is known limitation of, I think, GEOM stack.
No, it is certainly not. What would be the point?
Please re-iterate :)
When GEOM is signalled about new device, it tries to understand data
structures - MBR, partition table, etc. The key is 'when signalled'. So this
is not limitation of GEOM per se, just missing signalling of new device/data
media arrival.
Ah yes, if the reader always signals the device present but doesn't
signal media insertion, it would lead to the described problem.
I agree there isn't a good solution apart from polling.
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