Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Oct 2002 06:46:30 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: block device size in 2.5 |
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On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Joe Thornber wrote:
> Why is the total size of a block device held in struct gendisk rather > than struct block_device ?
It is mirrored into bdev->bd_inode->i_size. However, struct block_device is not persistent - persistent stuff lives in struct gendisk.
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