Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:13:23 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHSET] block,scsi,libata: implement alt_size |
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Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > This patchset implements alt_size, which is a size hint to the users > of a block device. It's primarily to communicate the BIOS (HPA) size > on ATA devices to userland, so that dmraid can consider it when trying > to figure out BIOS raid layout. This is critical as dmraid can be > tricked into assemblying the wrong raid when fed with the unlocked > size and if the disk content is right (or, rather, wrong) and good > number of distros are shipping with ignore_hpa=1 as default.
PING.
-- tejun
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