From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Jun 1 21:42:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA25870 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 1 Jun 1997 21:42:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pci.on.ca (inti.pci.on.ca [207.112.123.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA25864 for ; Sun, 1 Jun 1997 21:42:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by pci.on.ca (/\==/\ Smail3.1.28.1 #28.1) id ; Mon, 2 Jun 97 00:45 EDT Received: (from dgilbert@localhost) by repeat.pci.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA03842; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 00:26:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 00:26:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199706020426.AAA03842@repeat.pci.on.ca> From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: David Gilbert , bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with CCD. In-Reply-To: <199706020333.VAA00695@pluto.plutotech.com> References: <199706010545.BAA16048@repeat.pci.on.ca> <199706020333.VAA00695@pluto.plutotech.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under Emacs 19.34.3 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Justin" == Justin T Gibbs writes: >> But strangely, the install seems to run just fine... without a >> hitch. Why can the install format a partition and I can't later? Justin> Because you are not using the raw device. Perhaps John or Justin> David can look into why we get into deadlock by newfsing a Justin> character device??? Oi... Ok. Doing that by habbit. As a precaution, maybe newfs should either refuse the non-raw device or use the raw device? I realize the warning was there, but I have successfully ignored that warning for many years. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================