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Date:      Mon, 13 Jan 1997 22:25:42 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mount -o async on a news servre
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970113222542.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199701132056.NAA28192@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Jan 13, 1997 13:56:00 -0700
References:  <199701130130.MAA13813@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <199701132056.NAA28192@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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As Terry Lambert wrote:

> > Huh?  How do "other BSD's" handle reading the media size from a drive
> > that handles variable size media?  I think you're dreaming again.
> 
> They don't attempt to read it until they verify that media is present.

Btw., FreeBSD also re-reads the geometry later if needed.  The number
presented at boot is only for convenience there.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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