Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 18:49:56 +0100 From: phk@freebsd.org To: Rohit Grover <rgrover@panasas.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: having trouble understanding something about ccd Message-ID: <24170.1043689796@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:38:06 PST." <200301270938.06988.rgrover@panasas.com>
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In message <200301270938.06988.rgrover@panasas.com>, Rohit Grover writes: >Hello, > >This question is for the current maintainer(s) of ccd. The email >listed in ccd.c is invalid. > >In ccdioctl, for the command CCDIOCSET, ccdgetdisklabel() is called >after ccdinit(). In ccdgetdisklabel(), the raw partition's size is >initialized (to a value computed by ccdinit()) before calling >readdisklabel() which overwrites it with stuff read off the >media. This results in the loss of the computed value for size. Could >you please shed some light on the merits of this sequence of actions. I think this code is largely overtaken by events, as recently as a few days ago I ripped out the entire disklabel-fiddling code from CCD and set it to use the systems default code instead. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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