Hi, On 10-1-3 下午11:48, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > Yes: <http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/open_issues/blkrrpart_ioctl.html> > > Of course, this problem will go away / shift from the kernel into > user-space processes as soon as we have disk I/O completely handled in > user space. > > Which, by the way, should theoretically already be possible (mostly -- at > least for handling partitions), as Neal (I think) has added a GNU parted > backend to libstore, years ago. That's what I think, at least. :-) More > verbosely: you can use storeio (libstore) to access disk partitions on a > Mach hd* device, instead of using storeio (libstore) directly on the > Mach-provided hd*s* partitions. I don't know whether / how that libstore > backend works, etc. Someone could explore and document that. We will > need it as soon as we switch from the Mach disk device handling to > something more modern (DDE). > > > Next topic: DDE. Zheng, I'll work on your Makefile issues *now*. Really > *now*. Finally. Sorry for the delay. Very luckily, I have modified Makefile in DDE and it seems it can be compiled now though I'm not sure if the compiled code can work in Hurd. I have pushed it to flubber. Please check if I did the right thing.
Zheng Da
