Re: kern/41189: kernel panic xen dom0 using mke2fs & WAPBL

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/41189; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost>
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 gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
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Subject: Re: kern/41189: kernel panic xen dom0 using mke2fs & WAPBL
Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 12:59:09 -0700

 On May 9, 2009, at 12:35 AM, Andrew Doran wrote:
 
 
 > - We have longstanding problems providing block device semantics.  
 > Block
 >   devices are an interesting toy but they have no real application.  
 > Disk
 >   character devices suffice with one exception: on NetBSD, transfers  
 > on
 >   these devices must be aligned. So there is no need for physio to  
 > cache,
 >   it could simply buffer to allow misaligned transfers.
 
 Agreed, wholeheartedly.
 
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