Re: PR/42782 CVS commit: src/sys/ufs/ffs

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/42782; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
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Subject: Re: PR/42782 CVS commit: src/sys/ufs/ffs
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:22:41 +0900

 > >  * msdosfs still uses getdisksize() and secsize, and
 > >    mountfs fails if getdisksize() returns error.
 > 
 > msdosfs is also used with real device drivers. So far it does
 > require information about the physical disk and it would have
 > failed the same way before I encapsulated the ioctl's into
 > getdisksize(). Why do you think that's bad now?
 
 Consider msdosfs on md(4), for example.
 I don't think we can assume all possible devvps have
 necessary ioctls.
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 Izumi Tsutsui