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: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 16:03:50 -0500

 On Dec 29,  8:55pm, dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost (David Holland) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: bin/49510: gpt(8) fails w/o drvctl and breaks sysinst
 
 |  AIUI, it doesn't, same as stat(2) doesn't return the disk size. I
 |  consider this a bug.
 
 Consider stat'ing /dev/nrst0. Do you really want it to return the
 size? 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)?
 
 christos