Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:52:37 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org> To: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>, Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary Message-ID: <20020926085237.GA2645@genius.tao.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020926084733.GA26352@spc.org> References: <20020925173453.GA1347@laptop.6bone.nl> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209251114130.46717-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20020925203930.GB25571@genius.tao.org.uk> <20020926084733.GA26352@spc.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:47:33AM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 09:39:30PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > I thought that we hacked around this in the linuxulator 18 months ago > > by transparently converting block calls into character calls behind the > > scenes. Either this has been removed or something else is wrong. > > This isn't the case for me on -STABLE. I had to create block devices for > raw disks to work. > Yes that needs to be done one -stable. The hack I was talking about was for -current only where block devices don't exist anymore. Joe -- "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." - Albert Einstein, 1921 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iEUEARECAAYFAj2SytUACgkQXVIcjOaxUBYYhACXQ6YREbWhWUCu+AjqpP4JoAP6 xwCgkRbk+oq6S0L5sr7Kz8d7QhZqQIE= =KN6L -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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