Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 14:39:00 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: proff@iq.org (Julian Assange) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nasty problem with vnode and other disk drivers? Message-ID: <199710191939.OAA04475@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <19971019170838.1109.qmail@iq.org> from Julian Assange at "Oct 19, 97 05:08:38 pm"
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Julian Assange said: > > > Surely this can't be correct behavior: > > # cp /usr/share/dict/words words > # head words > A > a > aa > aal > aalii > aam > Aani > aardvark > aardwolf > Aaron > # vnconfig /dev/vn0 words > # dd if=/dev/rvn0 bs=8 count=10 > A > a > aa > aA > a > aa > aA > a > aa > It isn't expected behavior, but raw, block devices currently need I/O on 512 byte boundarys for integrals of 512 byte lengths. John
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