From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 25 10:48: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB79F37B414 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:47:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from birch.ripe.net (birch.ripe.net [193.0.1.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D254F43E3B for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:47:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marks@ripe.net) Received: from laptop.6bone.nl (cow.ripe.net [193.0.1.239]) by birch.ripe.net (8.12.5/8.11.6) with SMTP id g8PHlo37004892; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 19:47:50 +0200 Received: (nullmailer pid 1598 invoked by uid 1000); Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:47:48 -0000 Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 19:47:48 +0200 From: Mark Santcroos To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary Message-ID: <20020925174748.GA1442@laptop.6bone.nl> References: <20020925173453.GA1347@laptop.6bone.nl> <22163.1032975704@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <22163.1032975704@critter.freebsd.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Handles: MS6-6BONE, MS18417-RIPE X-RIPE-Spam-Status: NONE ; -1034 X-RIPE-Spam-Level: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 07:41:44PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >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. Long as in > 6 months? By looking at the code history it seems so indeed. Do you have an idea what might have 'covered' this though? A fact is that vmware did work up until a few months. I didn't do a binary search yet. That is last resort... Mark -- Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/ New Projects Group/TTM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message