Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 19:41:44 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary Message-ID: <22163.1032975704@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Sep 2002 19:34:53 %2B0200." <20020925173453.GA1347@laptop.6bone.nl>
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In message <20020925173453.GA1347@laptop.6bone.nl>, Mark Santcroos writes: >Vmware2 stopped running from both md and ad devices. Virtual disks still >work. It is caused by a read that is not on sector boundary. > >Should a program be able to read non-sector sized chunks from a raw disk >yes or no? What is the desired behaviour? No. >The fact that this did work, was it a bug or did this come out due to some >other change. The stacktrace from read(2) is below. This hasn't worked for a long time in -current. -- 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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