On Friday April 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > also sprach Wakko Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.04.11.1802 +0200]: > > That wasn't the point. The point was I wasn't able to "examine" > > the "file". There's absolutely no reason that one has to attach it > > to a loopback device just to examine the md superblock. > > md is "multi-device". A file is not a device. Of course, mdadm > could work on files, it could also implicitly gunzip them and do > character translation and all the like. But it doesn't, and it > won't. > > Now, at least this is my interpretation. I CC'd upstream and if he > disagrees, I'll take it all back. Neil, the bug report is at > http://bugs.debian.org/463769.
It don't entirely disagree with Martin, but then I don't entirely disagree with the patch either... conceptually at least. The O_LARGEFILE changes are not needed as the _FILE_OFFSET_BITS change makes them unnecessary. And there is some bad indenting... That fixed patch will appear in my .git shortly. NeilBrown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
