From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 25 14:21:33 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 1680137B401 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:21:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from birch.ripe.net (birch.ripe.net [193.0.1.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11BAE43E6A for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:21:31 -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 g8PLKp37003453; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 23:20:51 +0200 Received: (nullmailer pid 2752 invoked by uid 1000); Wed, 25 Sep 2002 21:20:48 -0000 Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 23:20:48 +0200 From: Mark Santcroos To: Julian Elischer Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary Message-ID: <20020925212048.GD1442@laptop.6bone.nl> References: <20020925173453.GA1347@laptop.6bone.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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 11:29:12AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > vmware used the blocking ("b" devices) interface to disks that do > blocking for you. > > Some well meaning but misguided individuals removed block devices > without providing an alernate way of doing this. It should be possible > to do the equivalent of a vn device that accepts misalligned > accesses and reblocks them, but I'll leave that to those whose > job it is to finish. Hi Julian, That was the background info I was looking for. I might try to do the remapping myself. Thanks 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