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Re: bin/49510: gpt(8) fails w/o drvctl and breaks sysinst
The following reply was made to PR bin/49510; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc:
Subject: Re: bin/49510: gpt(8) fails w/o drvctl and breaks sysinst
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 13:59:08 +0900
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 6:03 AM, Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost> wrote:
> Consider stat'ing /dev/nrst0. Do you really want it to return the
> size?
I'd expect it to return the physical disk size in bytes.
> Or /dev/rcd0a, what's the size? Is it the capacity? Or the
> current amount of data written? What if it's unformatted? Or even
> on regular disks, the size can be iffy... If you return sectors *
> secperunit, are you sure you can write that many bytes (what about
> bad sectors)?
I'd expect it to return the physical partition size in bytes, no
matter if it's impossible to write that many bytes.
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