Hi! Before this gets buried on -hackers in another thead... :)
I now have disks appear as block devices for Linux processes (there already was commented out code for that in linux_stats.c, I hope my version is now `correct enough' to be usable [1]), and I made a simple patch to make lseek SEEK_END (L_XTND in the source) dtrt on disk devices too by simply invoking the DIOCGMEDIASIZE ioctl there; [2] both of these things are what (some) Linux processes expect. Patches are here: (made on stable/8, if they don't apply on head I'll have to make extra versions for that...) http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/linuxdisk-blk.patch [1] http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/lseek-seek_end.patch [2] And yes, with these patches the Linux bsdtar mentioned on -hackers in the `"tar tfv /dev/cd0" speedup patch' thread now also runs fast on FreeBSD. :) Cheers, Juergen _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"