Re: [ANNOUNCE] new HFS(+) driver

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> What the devil are you doing with get_gendisk() in there?  Neither 2.4
> nor 2.6 should be messing with it.

In 2.6 it's only a debugging check and will be removed. In 2.4 it's 
currently needed to get the correct size. The backup volume sector is in 
the second last (512 byte) sector, but bd_inode->i_size is truncated to 
BLOCK_SIZE.

bye, Roman


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