From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 17 16: 9:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F5B714E1D for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 16:09:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA14001; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 08:39:40 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id IAA13842; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 08:39:36 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 08:39:35 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ccd bugs (was: Kernel hacker tasks seek interested hackers) Message-ID: <19990818083935.L7187@freebie.lemis.com> References: <14546.934712877@critter.freebsd.dk> <7049.934878514@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <7049.934878514@axl.noc.iafrica.com>; from Sheldon Hearn on Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 10:28:34AM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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