The following reply was made to PR kern/29838; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Juan RP <juan@xtraeme.nopcode.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: bouyer@antioche.eu.org
Subject: Re: kern/29838: Cannot newfs vnd(4) sparse files
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 19:00:51 +0200

 On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:59:01 +0000 (UTC)
 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:
 
 >  Yes, this is a known limitation of vnd(4) (at last, known to someone
 >  who read the sources :). A note in the man page would be good.
 >  
 >  The changes I've done to use a kernel thread context for I/O to the file
 >  may help fixing this, but I don't know how ...
 
 I was using your patch to test it, the bug is still there.