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

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

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From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
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Subject: Re: bin/49510: gpt(8) fails w/o drvctl and breaks sysinst
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 08:37:07 -0500

 On Dec 30,  5:00am, uebayasi%gmail.com@localhost (Masao Uebayashi) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: bin/49510: gpt(8) fails w/o drvctl and breaks sysinst
 
 |  > 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.
 
 That's a tape, it'd have to spin it to the end, or the next EOF marker
 to find out.
 
 christos