Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 20:15:30 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@portaone.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GEOM is too verbose Message-ID: <410BD3B2.4080506@portaone.com> In-Reply-To: <64021.1091291879@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <64021.1091291879@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <410BBB74.9010804@portaone.com>, Maxim Sobolev writes: > >>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >> >>>In message <410BB699.3060803@portaone.com>, Maxim Sobolev writes: >>> >>> >>>>Hi Poul, >>>> >>>>I use application that detects size of disk using binary search. On >>>>current each attempt to read beyond disk boundary causes message on >>>>console, which is annoying. Can you please turn them off, since >>>>apparently they serve no meaningful purpose. >>> >>> >>>Why don't you just use ioctl(DIOC_MEDIASIZE) ? >>> >>>or the diskinfo(8) program ? >> >>It is python program, so that ioctl() is out of question. Usage of >>diskinfo is possible but is not portable across different unices. > > > sigh... yeah, we should have fixed that 30 years ago. > > Anyway, the message is intentional because you really have a bug > when you try to read past the end of a disk. Typically this means > that a filesystem has lost its marbles. IMO it should be conditional on DEBUG, because it is not something that happens during normal operation. -Maxim
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