From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 13 13:54:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA08618 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 13:54:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA08599 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 13:53:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA20526 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 22:52:54 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id WAA03067; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 22:25:42 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: 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 References: <199701130130.MAA13813@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <199701132056.NAA28192@phaeton.artisoft.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701132056.NAA28192@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Jan 13, 1997 13:56:00 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)