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Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
Subject: Re: CFT: vdfuse port (was: Re: Mounting VirtualBox vdi files
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On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 01:21:26PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Warren Block wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Juergen Lock wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> Dumping the partitions of that FreeBSD system worked just now.  Not what
> >>> I'd call a thorough test, but it did read everything in the filesystem
> >>> without problems.
> >> 
> >> Ok that sounds promising...  Someone want to do more tests or should I
> >> just commit the port? :)
> >
> > Testing writes has not been as successful.  fdisk and bsdlabel work fine, as 
> > does writing individual files.  But trying to restore onto a vdfuse/mdconfig 
> > partition just goes away.  The machine is idle, restore waits in wdrain, and 
> > further access to that device does not respond.  I think I saw fuse in a 
> > fuse_msg state, but can't verify that now.
> 
> Further information: copying a single file onto the mounted filesystem 
> works.  More than one, with restore or just cp, and vdfuse and the 
> copying process go to wdrain forever.

Hm ok...  Which FreeBSD version was this btw?

 Thanx, :)
	Juergen