From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 26 1:52:57 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 E5C9837B401; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 01:52:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genius.tao.org.uk (genius.tao.org.uk [212.135.162.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46A2643E7B; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 01:52:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@genius.tao.org.uk) Received: by genius.tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id C317C434F; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:52:37 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:52:37 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Bruce M Simpson , Josef Karthauser , Julian Elischer , Mark Santcroos , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary Message-ID: <20020926085237.GA2645@genius.tao.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Josef Karthauser , Bruce M Simpson , Julian Elischer , Mark Santcroos , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020925173453.GA1347@laptop.6bone.nl> <20020925203930.GB25571@genius.tao.org.uk> <20020926084733.GA26352@spc.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020926084733.GA26352@spc.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > This isn't the case for me on -STABLE. I had to create block devices for > raw disks to work. >=20 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 --=20 "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 --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iEUEARECAAYFAj2SytUACgkQXVIcjOaxUBYYhACXQ6YREbWhWUCu+AjqpP4JoAP6 xwCgkRbk+oq6S0L5sr7Kz8d7QhZqQIE= =KN6L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message