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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

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Mark Santcroos                    RIPE Network Coordination Centre
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