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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!news From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: end of device not found Date: 9 Aug 1993 12:37:53 +0200 Organization: EUnet Deutschland GmbH, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 17 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2459e1$2ke@Germany.EU.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: qwerty.germany.eu.net Hi there, playing around with timing different block size reads from both my swap devices and the 3.5" floppy, I noticed the following strange behaviour: 128k reads from the floppy eventually end with a NO SPACE LEFT ON DEVICE error, which they shouldn't: IMHO you should eventually get a short read. My second swap device was disk-labelled as a 4.3BSD 8k blocksize filesystem type (I tend to use it as such sometimes). However, the size of the partition is not an integer multiple of 8192. (It *is* cylinder aligned, though.) I got some kind of error message on the last read() with 8k block reads, while, IMHO, a short read count should have been returned. Why ? -Bernard