From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Oct 3 4:57: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 217A837B401; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 04:57:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from birch.ripe.net (birch.ripe.net [193.0.1.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D110843E65; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 04:57:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marks@ripe.net) Received: from laptop.6bone.nl (cow.ripe.net [193.0.1.239]) by birch.ripe.net (8.12.5/8.11.6) with SMTP id g93Bv095022222; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 13:57:00 +0200 Received: (nullmailer pid 5554 invoked by uid 1000); Thu, 03 Oct 2002 11:56:49 -0000 Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 13:56:49 +0200 From: Mark Santcroos To: Bruce Evans Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary Message-ID: <20021003115649.GC584@laptop.6bone.nl> References: <20021003081152.GB584@laptop.6bone.nl> <20021003214616.B3519-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021003214616.B3519-100000@gamplex.bde.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Handles: MS6-6BONE, MS18417-RIPE X-RIPE-Spam-Status: NONE ; -86 X-RIPE-Spam-Level: Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:50:45PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > Unbreaking block devices would be a better solution. Without buffering, > reads of raw disks using an unbuffered linux_read() might be > times slower than they should be. You are right. The quick and dirty hack I had in mind was less quick and more dirty than I expected ;-) What was the reason for the removal of block devices anyway? It would be nice if you would tell me some background about that.. :) Mark -- Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/ New Projects Group/TTM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message