Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 08:39:35 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ccd bugs (was: Kernel hacker tasks seek interested hackers) Message-ID: <19990818083935.L7187@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <7049.934878514@axl.noc.iafrica.com>; from Sheldon Hearn on Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 10:28:34AM %2B0200 References: <14546.934712877@critter.freebsd.dk> <7049.934878514@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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On Tuesday, 17 August 1999 at 10:28:34 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Sun, 15 Aug 1999 12:27:57 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> 4. [not quite easy] The CCD device ditto. >> Earn brownie points: Make ccdconfig use sysctl instead of >> libkvm to read back configuration. > > Anyone who decides to tackle this one is likely to have the wherewithall > to test a PR which I can't right now -- PR 10077: > > PR: 10077 > Class: kern > Synopsis: dd'ing a ccd stripped partition sometimes hangs in physstr Don't count on it. He's talking serious disk space (starting at 8 GB on two disks). Why did you take this one? It's certainly not a dd problem. I'd guess that it's a numeric overflow problem; there have been other such problems in ccd before. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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