From owner-cvs-all Wed Oct 20 9:34:26 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (picasso.transbay.net [209.133.53.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AC3014A06; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 09:34:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.6.12) id JAA02301; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 09:59:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19991019095950.30903@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 09:59:50 -0700 From: Greg Lehey To: Poul-Henning Kamp , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: HEADS UP (was: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/specfs spec_vnops.c) References: <199910181659.JAA86963@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199910181659.JAA86963@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 09:59:51AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Monday, 18 October 1999 at 9:59:51 -0700, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > phk 1999/10/18 09:59:51 PDT > > Modified files: > sys/miscfs/specfs spec_vnops.c > Log: > Change the default for the vfs.bdev_buffered sysctl to zero. > > This means that access to block devices nodes will act the > same as char device nodes for disk-like devices. > > If you encounter problems after this, where programs accessing > disks directly fail to operate, please use the following command > to revert to previous behaviour: > > sysctl -w vfs.bdev_buffered=1 > > And verify that this was indeed the cause of your trouble. > > See the mail-archives of the arch@FreeBSD.org list for background. Shouldn't this have been followed with a heads up? Wonderful timing! Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message