From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 20 14: 4:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DE2E150B9; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 14:04:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA22289; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 23:03:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "Brian F. Feldman" Cc: "Steven G. Kargl" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: is dumpon/savecore broken? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jul 1999 17:00:04 EDT." Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 23:03:07 +0200 Message-ID: <22287.932504587@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , "Bria n F. Feldman" writes: >> /ddname = find_dev/s/BLK/CHR/ > >No, that's wrong. You cannot do buffered-type IO on a cdev. I committed >a workaround, and now it works. There's no easy way around this, except >possibly making kern.dumpdev a string (makes quite a bit of sense there...) Indeed. a dev_t should never be exported as such from the kernel anymore, in particular not for bdevs. dumps and swap are the two offenders left. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message