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Date:      Sun, 19 Sep 1999 23:13:30 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, dg@root.com, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: User block device access (was: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/specfs spec_vnops.c src/sys/sys vnode.h src/sys/kern vfs_subr.c) 
Message-ID:  <18430.937775610@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Sep 1999 14:01:06 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909191358290.42316-100000@semuta.feral.com> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909191358290.42316-100000@semuta.feral.com>, Matthew
 Jacob writes:
>
>> In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909191332050.42316-100000@semuta.feral.com>, Matthew
>>  Jacob writes:
>> 
>> >>     and
>> >> 	Since bdevs have not been returning write errors for 5+ years
>> >
>> >I don't believe that this is necessarily as bad as you make it out to
>> >because close(2) can (and should) return any collected errors (as it
>> >should also do for the close of a file in a filesystem :-)).
>> 
>> think linux weenie and floppy disk for a moment...
>
>Umm, I certainly get write errors dd'ing to a floppy that has a bad spot
>on a linux system (spent 40 minutes yesterday hunting through my pile of
>4.0.3c SparcStation floppies until I found one still good enough to
>write with RH6.0's boot floppy image...)

Now try this on a freebsd system:

	insert know sick floppy
	dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/fd0c bs=9k

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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