geom nudge

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <42CA592F.5040005 at icyb.net.ua>, Andriy Gapon writes:
>on 01.07.2005 20:13 Poul-Henning Kamp said the following:
>> In message <42C56B54.7080703 at icyb.net.ua>, Andriy Gapon writes:
>> 
>> 
>>>I am actually OK with such situation. The problem is that the only
>>>device created is obviously da0 i.e. there are no devices for slices
>>>present on medium. So, when the card reader comes to senses I would like
>>>to give a nudge to geom to "re-scan" or "re-create" da0. 
>> 
>> 	true > /dev/da0
>> will do it.
>
>Thank you very much. So, it is opening for write that actually does it ?

Well, technically it is "last close for write" that does it but yes.

Since a write could have modified the metadata on the device, the last
close for write will trigger a tasting.

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