On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, David Malone wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 11:02:04AM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> > Now, this may be the wrong way to do it:
> > 
> >     # mount -oro -t msdos /dev/ugen0 /mnt
> > 
> > But the error message is certainly misleading. Especially,
> > since the are no block devices in -current any more :)
> > 
> >     msdosfs: /dev/ugen0: Block device required
> 
> This is caused by the kernel returning ENOTBLK, which I think still
> makes sense in the kernel. It's possible that the errno should be
> translated to a different string though...
> 
>       David.
> 
> ./fs/hpfs/hpfs_vfsops.c:                err = ENOTBLK;
> ./fs/ntfs/ntfs_vfsops.c:                err = ENOTBLK;
> ./i386/ibcs2/ibcs2_errno.c:     IBCS2_ENOTBLK,          /* 15 */
> ./kern/vfs_aio.c:               if (error == ENOTBLK)
> ./kern/vfs_subr.c:                      *errp = ENOTBLK;
> ./kern/vfs_subr.c:                      *errp = ENOTBLK;
> ./compat/svr4/svr4_sysvec.c:        SVR4_ENOTBLK,
> 

Just because there is no 'block' device representation in /dev doesn't mean
that there aren't block devices.



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