From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Oct 3 8:58:28 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 D1BB337B406; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 08:58:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (esplanaden.cybercity.dk [212.242.40.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB8C643E65; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 08:58:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g93FvuZ5005996; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:57:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Bruce Evans Cc: Mark Santcroos , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Oct 2002 02:03:28 +1000." <20021004012906.S4315-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 17:57:56 +0200 Message-ID: <5995.1033660676@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp 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 In message <20021004012906.S4315-100000@gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes: >> If a buffered access-mode on block devices is desired, it should >> be implemented either as an ioctl controllable feature, or as >> a GEOM module. The latter is probably by far the easiest way. > >It was desired, and was sort of promised. And we're close to the point where it can happen... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message