On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 04:11:20PM +1100, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> I still think we should change DIOCWDINFO to write the raw label,
> even if there is no raw label.  Currently DIOCWDINFO will fail
> if the raw label doesn't exist.  (See disklabel(5)).
> 
> Each port can then ensure that it updates its NetBSD disklabel, and
> if necessary update the "vendor"/"PROM" label (e.g, on Sun boxes).
> 
> disklabel(8) would have all "write to the actual sectors of the raw label"
> support removed.
> (For that matter, it should have the '-B' (bootblock) stuff removed as well.)
> 
> This all should be ok if the securelevel is enforced appropriately
> by DIOCWDINFO.

I agree -- I like encapsulating this code in one place, and only one place;
and we can then prohibit user writes of the disklabel sectors all the time,
no matter what, which also gives me a warm fuzzy feeling (and will make it
easier to validate that each port's disksubr.c DTRT).

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