From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 4 1:41: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5E8E37B401 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 01:41:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C81D143E7B for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 01:41:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA23222; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 18:40:56 +1000 Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 18:50:38 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Bakul Shah , Subject: Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary In-Reply-To: <7944.1033668942@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: <20021004184640.N7083-100000@gamplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <200210031637.MAA01800@rodney.cnchost.com>, Bakul Shah writes: > >How hard would it be to bring back block devices without GEOM? > > Not at all hard, pretty trivial in fact. The easiest way is to restore the old code and use a minor number hack or ioctl to enable it. I had better do it instead of complaining about it. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message