From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 3 17:39:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA16821 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 17:39:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA16814 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 17:39:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id CAA15003 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 02:39:32 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id CAA04339 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 02:39:32 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id WAA23224 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 22:54:09 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602032154.WAA23224@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: And the winner is! To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 22:54:08 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199602032136.OAA04374@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Feb 3, 96 02:36:35 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > > disklabel -Brw sdX auto > > disklabel -e sdX > What is the limiting factor on simply coding all the disk drivers to > return either a fictitious (but always usable) geometry, or at a > minimum, a total number of sectors for a device? That's exactly what i'm using in the ``auto'' case. (Or what else did you expect? It's still only water to cook with...) > In keeping with the devfs discussion on the -current list, the total > number of sectors ought to be available from both phical devices (this > case) and logical devices (the slice/partition management case). The slices don't (yet) return this information, that's why it's currently limited to dedicated disks. -- 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. ;-)