Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:56:10 +0100 | Subject | Re: block device size in 2.5 | From | Joe Thornber <> |
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On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 06:46:30AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > 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.
Thanks.
Is gendisk the right name for that structure now ? Since all block devices now have to use it. I've always avoided using gendisk before, arguing that dm produces block devices, not disks. I don't need partitions and I don't particularly want the devices to appear in /proc/partitions.
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