Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 14:01:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, dg@root.com, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: User block device access (was: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/specfs spec_vnops.c src/sys/sys vnode.h src/sys/kern vfs_subr.c) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909191358290.42316-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <18266.937774371@critter.freebsd.dk>
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> In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909191332050.42316-100000@semuta.feral.com>, Matthew > Jacob writes: > > >> and > >> Since bdevs have not been returning write errors for 5+ years > > > >I don't believe that this is necessarily as bad as you make it out to > >because close(2) can (and should) return any collected errors (as it > >should also do for the close of a file in a filesystem :-)). > > think linux weenie and floppy disk for a moment... Umm, I certainly get write errors dd'ing to a floppy that has a bad spot on a linux system (spent 40 minutes yesterday hunting through my pile of 4.0.3c SparcStation floppies until I found one still good enough to write with RH6.0's boot floppy image...) > > It certainly violates POLA. "Point Of Least Amiability" ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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