From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 26 23:32:20 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B704D37B401; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 23:32:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA28943F3F; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 23:32:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@freebsd.org) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0R7WHQl019314; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:32:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@freebsd.org) To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: Nate Lawson , cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/disklabel disklabel.c From: phk@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 26 Jan 2003 23:09:58 PST." <20030127070958.GA2431@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:32:17 +0100 Message-ID: <19313.1043652737@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20030127070958.GA2431@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>, Marcel Moolenaar write s: >One of the thoughts I have on the issue is to have the geom classes >have device nodes as side-entrances, independent of the producer- >consumer interfaces. Direct access to the device nodes can then >easily be checked with each read or write without pessimizing the >P/C layering. > >The ioctl interface not not suited for GPT as the amount of data that >has to be read or written is not fixed, as are the LBAs at which the >data has to be written. Well, that doesn't really mean that ioctl cannot be used, merely that the arguments have to be taylored. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message