Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 13:56:49 +0200 From: Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary Message-ID: <20021003115649.GC584@laptop.6bone.nl> In-Reply-To: <20021003214616.B3519-100000@gamplex.bde.org> References: <20021003081152.GB584@laptop.6bone.nl> <20021003214616.B3519-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:50:45PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > Unbreaking block devices would be a better solution. Without buffering, > reads of raw disks using an unbuffered linux_read() might be <sector size> > times slower than they should be. You are right. The quick and dirty hack I had in mind was less quick and more dirty than I expected ;-) What was the reason for the removal of block devices anyway? It would be nice if you would tell me some background about that.. :) Mark -- Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/ New Projects Group/TTM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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