In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Santcroos writes:
>Vmware2 stopped running from both md and ad devices. Virtual disks still
>work. It is caused by a read that is not on sector boundary.
>
>Should a program be able to read non-sector sized chunks from a raw disk 
>yes or no? What is the desired behaviour?

No.

>The fact that this did work, was it a bug or did this come out due to some
>other change. The stacktrace from read(2) is below.

This hasn't worked for a long time in -current.

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