From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 9 09:26:37 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA18301 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 09:26:37 -0700 Received: from eikon.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (eikon.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de [129.187.42.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA18266 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 09:26:30 -0700 Received: from vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de ([129.187.142.36]) by eikon.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de with SMTP id <43130>; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 18:24:11 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA24599; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 16:51:36 +0200 Message-Id: <199506081451.QAA24599@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> X-Authentication-Warning: vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Bruce Evans , phk@ref.tfs.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw Subject: Re: Quantum hardware errors (Deferred Error: HARDWARE FAILURE asc:87,0) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jun 1995 10:42:51 +0200." <9032.802514571@freefall.cdrom.com> Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 16:51:35 +0200 From: Julian Howard Stacey Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > I hoped to fix tar, cpio and pax to at least complain about the > > truncation. How about skipping special files that can't be stored > > without loss? > > That would certainly be better than nothing! Right now it's just > a hidden bomb. Perhaps one could set major & minor to some std. unallocated number, & set mode to 0, then one would have a permanent indication of the device that's missing ? (I presume we already have a standard dev_maj_unallocated or some such, or could add one for bug detection ?) PS dont use 0,0 - that's console ! Julian S.