Re: strange vnd disk behavior in -current (with ffs2?)

[Sarton O'Brien <bsd-xen%roguewrt.org@localhost>]

Adam Hamsik wrote:
> Hi,
> On Oct,Thursday 30 2008, at 11:09 PM, Markus W Kilbinger wrote:
>>
> >  dd if=/dev/zero of=temp.disk bs=1 seek=100000000 count=1
>
> You are creating spare disk image here don't you ? AFAIK vnd doesnt support
> spare images for now.

Just to clarify, I think he meant sparse disk image. This has been a 
problem/feature of vnd for some time. Try a larger block size/count and 
no seek.

Sarton