Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 08:09:05 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: andrew@zeta.org.au (Andrew Reilly) Subject: Re: newfs on Fujitsu R640 (2k sector media) Message-ID: <19970822080905.GV40553@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <199708211423.AAA13070@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199708212318.JAA26043@gurney.reilly.home>
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As Andrew Reilly wrote: > > I don't think it will work in any version of 2.2. (Only) > > -current has some hacks to support non-512-byte sectors. > > Darn. Given all of the recent exhortations to the unwashed not to muck > about with -current unless they were actively doing development, I'm > loath to do that upgrade. Is there any chance of the relevant changes > filtering back into 2.2? No. They are messy enough to have them in -current, but that's nothing one would love to see migrating into a branch marketed as `-stable'. Did we really ever announce them as an `officially available' feature? Hard to believe. > Won't this be foiled when newfs attempts to write the last sector, to > verify that it can, and uses a 512-byte write? Newfs doesn't write to a last sector to verify something. That's not a PC BIOS... Newfs just creates the required filesystem structures only. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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