Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:55:36 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: What to do about the 2TB limit on HDIO_GETGEO ? |
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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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