cvs commit: src/sbin/dump main.c traverse.c

[Kirk McKusick]

mckusick    2003/05/07 11:27:09 PDT

  FreeBSD src repository

  Modified files:
    sbin/dump            main.c traverse.c 
  Log:
  Dump is hard-wired to believe that it can read disks on
  1024-byte boundaries. For many years this was a reasonable
  assumption. However, in recent years we have begun seeing
  devices with 2048-byte sectors. These devices return errors
  when dump tries to read starting in the middle of a sector
  or when it tries to read only the first half of a sector.
  Rather than change the native block size used by dump (and
  thus create an incompatible dump format), this fix checks
  for transfer requests that start and/or end on a non-sector
  boundary. When such a read is detected, the new code reads
  the entire sector and copies out just the part that dump
  needs.
  
  Reviewed by:    Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at critter.freebsd.dk>
  Approved by:    re (John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org>)
  Sponsored by:   DARPA & NAI Labs.
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.53      +1 -0      src/sbin/dump/main.c
  1.32      +47 -4     src/sbin/dump/traverse.c