Re: bin/45191: newfs_v7fs(8) doesn't work on a disk partition

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/45191; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/45191: newfs_v7fs(8) doesn't work on a disk partition
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 06:20:04 +0000

 On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 11:30:01AM +0000, tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost wrote:
  > tron@lyssa:~#newfs_v7fs /dev/rwd1e
  > newfs_v7fs: mmap failed. use direct I/O.: Invalid argument
  > newfs_v7fs: sector=1
  > : Read-only file system
  > newfs_v7fs: Can't write back superblock.: Input/output error
  > newfs_v7fs: Input/output error
 
 Is this because it's a partition or because it's too big to mmap?
 (Does a 512M partition work?)
 
 Of course, mmap'ing disk images is kind of silly...
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost