Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 08:26:46 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: dgilbert@jaywon.pci.on.ca (David Gilbert) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with CCD. Message-ID: <19970602082646.RS47657@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199706020426.AAA03842@repeat.pci.on.ca>; from David Gilbert on Jun 2, 1997 00:26:13 -0400 References: <199706010545.BAA16048@repeat.pci.on.ca> <199706020333.VAA00695@pluto.plutotech.com> <199706020426.AAA03842@repeat.pci.on.ca>
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As David Gilbert wrote: > Oi... Ok. Doing that by habbit. As a precaution, maybe newfs > should either refuse the non-raw device or use the raw device? I > realize the warning was there, but I have successfully ignored that > warning for many years. Which was plain stupid. :) You should _never_ ignore warnings, unless you know why you're ignoring it. (Q: Tell me at least three reasons why you should not use buffered devices for things like newfs, or tar(1) to a floppy.) This looks similar to the crashes/hangs reported by people for accessing floppies via the buffered device, in particular in error situations (like no floppy there at all). I've never been able to reproduce them. Perhaps i should also get the wrong habit of using the buffered devices... in the hope to see the bug some day, too. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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