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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Mark Lord wrote:
> 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. 
> ..

It shouldn't be under /sys/block... there are enough many things that 
scan /sys/block and assume any directory underneath it has the current 
format.

	-hpa
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