Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:32:17 +0100 From: phk@freebsd.org To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/disklabel disklabel.c Message-ID: <19313.1043652737@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 26 Jan 2003 23:09:58 PST." <20030127070958.GA2431@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
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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
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