From owner-cvs-all Sun Sep 19 14:15:59 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 640AC156CF; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 14:15:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA18432; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 23:13:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Matthew Dillon , dg@root.com, Greg Lehey , 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) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 19 Sep 1999 14:01:06 PDT." Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 23:13:30 +0200 Message-ID: <18430.937775610@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In message , Matthew Jacob writes: > >> In message , 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...) Now try this on a freebsd system: insert know sick floppy dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/fd0c bs=9k -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message