In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Bria
n F. Feldman" writes:
>> /ddname = find_dev/s/BLK/CHR/
>
>No, that's wrong. You cannot do buffered-type IO on a cdev. I committed
>a workaround, and now it works. There's no easy way around this, except
>possibly making kern.dumpdev a string (makes quite a bit of sense there...)
Indeed. a dev_t should never be exported as such from the kernel
anymore, in particular not for bdevs. dumps and swap are the two
offenders left.
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