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

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: Juan RP <juan@xtraeme.nopcode.org>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/29838: Cannot newfs vnd(4) sparse files
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 19:07:56 +0200

 On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 07:00:51PM +0200, Juan RP wrote:
 > 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.
 
 I didn't say it would fix it, I said it could make fixing it easier :)
 
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