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Date:      Thu, 22 Jun 1995 06:06:46 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@freefall.cdrom.com, hsu@freefall.cdrom.com
Cc:        hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: dump errors
Message-ID:  <199506212006.GAA00811@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>Could this be a slice compatibility problem?  These are old 1.1 filesystems
>that are giving me trouble, and, I just dumped it successfully w/o errors
>from FreeBSD 1.1.5.1.

If the partitions are partly outside the slice, then chopping them would
cause read errors.  Any chopping of partitions is reported when the slice
is first-opened.

PR 461 reports and fixes bogus checking of lseek() for offsets >= 2G
but I don't see how this problem can affect read().

Bruce



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