newfs(1) on a file

[Nazim Can Bedir]

No my friend, he is not trolling but shit-posting.

Please let pay attention to details, because devil lies in details.

On 04/06/2020 21:51, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> 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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>
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