From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Oct 3 15:54:25 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 E57AD37B401; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:54:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from birch.ripe.net (birch.ripe.net [193.0.1.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3CBA43E75; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:54:22 -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 g93Ms7uk017816; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 00:54:07 +0200 Received: (nullmailer pid 9077 invoked by uid 1000); Thu, 03 Oct 2002 22:53:52 -0000 Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 00:53:52 +0200 From: Mark Santcroos To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Bruce Evans , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary Message-ID: <20021003225352.GL584@laptop.6bone.nl> References: <20021004012906.S4315-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <5995.1033660676@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5995.1033660676@critter.freebsd.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Handles: MS6-6BONE, MS18417-RIPE 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 05:57:56PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > 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... So 'ignoring' the historic facts, and assuming that we just want block devices, we can do such a thing in GEOM in the future? Is this something you will be doing yourself Poul, or is it just that you are saying that it is possible? If not, I really would like to help to get vmware back, but I don't know anything more about GEOM than "option\t\tGEOM". 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