Re: What to do about the 2TB limit on HDIO_GETGEO ?

[Mark Lord]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Mark Lord wrote:
> > One candidate might seem to be the existing 
> > /sys/block/dev/partition/start
> > which I expect is already 64-bit friendly.
> >
> > But this requires about 150 lines of somewhat complex C code to access,
> > using only the dev_t (from stat(2) on a file) as a starting point,
> > or less if one relies upon the udev device name matching the sysfs 
> > device name.
> >
> > Is it time now for HDIO_GETGEO64 to make an appearance?
> > Similar to how the existing BLKGETSIZE64 is supplanting BLKGETSIZE ?
>
> Probably a better thing to have would be a way to look up block devices 
> in sysfs by device number.
..

Yeah, that would be just as good, really.  Maybe even better.

Mark Lord wrote (later on):
> Instead, software has to search everything inside /sys/block/
> looking for a "dev" file whose contents match,
> rather than just trying to access something like this:
>
>   /sys/block/8:1/start
> or
>   /sys/block/majors/8/minors/1/start
>
> Or any one of a number of similar ways to arrange it. 
..

Greg ?
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