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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Kay Sievers wrote:
> >  And it's not just a few 10s of lines of code currently,
> >  but rather about 80-100 lines just to find the correct device subdir,
> >  and *then* a few more 10s of lines of code to retrieve the value.
>
> Hmm, 100 lines? What else do you need?
>
>   $ grep -l 8:3 /sys/class/block/*/dev
>   /sys/class/block/sdc/dev

That's particularly funny, because your very own example gives the wrong 
result -- sdc is 8:32 not 8:3 (which is sdc3, which is also excluded by 
your search.)

Not to mention the fact that it is still O(n).

	-hpa
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