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SubjectRe: What to do about the 2TB limit on HDIO_GETGEO ?
Tejun Heo wrote:
>
>> Since when is the major:minor view of devices the "standard" one that
>> userspace uses? Last I looked, userspace uses symlinks and lots of
>> other ways of directly accessing block devices in /dev/, and does not
>> rely on major:minor.
>
> The fact that major:minor is the unique identifier of a device makes it
> a bit special compared to other names on filesystem.
>

In particular, stat() and friends returns the device number, not a
device name.

-hpa


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