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Date:      Thu, 18 Jan 2001 21:32:50 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
Cc:        Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.co.uk>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/compat/linux linux_stats.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101182131570.1639-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010117110942.A917@tao.org.uk>

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On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Josef Karthauser wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 06:37:36PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> > 
> > > On the assumption that linux uses block mode for all "disk" access
> > > it seems like the correct thing to do.  I'll verify that vmware
> > > still accesses the cdrom device... md's and vn's aren't going to be
> > > directly accessed by the linuxulator (are they?), rather accessed as
> > > pre-mounted filesystems.
> > 
> > Of course they are.  From one of my old vmware2 configs:
> > 
> >     DRIVETYPE      ide
> >     CYLINDERS  13328
> >     HEADS         15
> >     SECTORS       63
> >     ACCESS "/dev/vn0" 0 12594960
> 
> In this case looking at D_DISK does the correct thing, doesn't it?

If not, the bug is in the non-disk driver that set D_DISK :-).

Bruce



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