From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 8 08:00:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA12008 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 08:00:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA11991 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 08:00:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id RAA11364; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 17:00:30 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 17:00:29 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Mark Blackman , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2048-byte sector support for DOS filesystem. References: <7582.905261783@time.cdrom.com> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 08 Sep 1998 17:00:28 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of "Tue, 08 Sep 1998 06:36:23 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id IAA12002 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > > The last mention I saw of this issue was in PR kern/2715 along with a (now > > outdated) patch. Is this just the usual question of effort (everybody's busy > > with more important stuff) or of some technical issue that needs to be > > resolved? (that's the same thing I suppose). > I'd guess the former. :) I think the patches in kern/7210 address this inre. the od driver - but since the od driver is going away on C-day and CAM's da driver supports (n * 512)-byte blocks for arbitrary n, I don't see much point in committing it to -current (though it might be worth looking into committing it to -stable) IIRC 7210 is assigned to me, but it has lain dormant for a while due to my terminal condition of laziness + lack of motivation due to the imminent integration of CAM into -current. If enough people are interested, I'll brush the dust off it and test it on -stable. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message