newfs(1) on a file

[Aryeh Friedman]

Top posting since the comment has very little to do with the actual content
of the message.   I am amazed people call me a troll but someone who is
purposely being one is not called out?!?!!?   How many of the posting
guidelines has this guy broken already?

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 12:49 PM <goatshit54108 at national.shitposting.agency>
wrote:

> Running newfs(1) on a regular file bumps into some GAY issues:
>
> $ dd status=none if=/dev/zero bs=1m count=4 of=shit
> $ newfs ./shit
> newfs: ./shit: not a character-special device: No error: 0
> newfs: no valid label found
>
> The message is not clear, but it happens to be a cry for a BSD label. OK,
> first creating a BSD label does allow newfs to succeed:
> $ bsdlabel -wf ./shit
> $ newfs ./shit
> newfs: ./shit: not a character-special device: No error: 0
> ... (creation OK)
>
> The bump is inside getdisklabel(). Patching out the one and only call to
> getdisklabel() seems to avoid the issue without negative consequences:
>         ...
>         lp = NULL; //lp = getdisklabel(); // GAY
>         ...
>
> $ dd status=none if=/dev/zero bs=1m count=4 of=shit
> $ non-gay_newfs ./shit
> newfs: ./shit: not a character-special device: No error: 0
> preposterous size 0
> $ non-gay_newfs -s $(((4 << 20) / 512)) ./shit
> newfs: ./shit: not a character-special device: No error: 0
> ... (creation OK)
>
> The inconvenient alternative, to get newfs to format the file though a
> memory disk, appears to create an identical file:
> $ dd status=none if=/dev/zero bs=1m count=4 of=shit
> $ su root
> ... (GAY) ...
> # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f ./shit -u 9
> # newfs /dev/md9
> ... (creation OK) ...
>
> Identical, that is, if we use `newfs -R` and discount a couple of
> reproducibility bugs/issues (<
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=246983>, <
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=246985>).
>
> Also, at a glance, using the BSD label method yields nothing other than a
> UFS filesystem along with a BSD label.
>
> So this code appears to be old garbage.
>
> Furthermore, the "not a character-special device" warning is just GAY
> without any benefit.
>
> Or?...
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Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org