Re: bin/49510: gpt(8) fails w/o drvctl and breaks sysinst

[Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi%gmail.com@localhost>]

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From: Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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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.