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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/4 v2] brd: Add getgeo to block ops
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    On Fri, 2014-08-08 at 09:52 +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
    > On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 9:20 PM, One Thousand Gnomes
    > <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
    > > On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 17:03:08 +0300
    > > Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com> wrote:
    > >
    > >> From: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
    > >>
    > >> Some programs like fdisk, require HDIO_GETGEO to work, which requires we
    > >> implement getgeo.
    > >>
    > >> We set all hd_geometry members to 1, because this way fdisk
    > >> math will not try its crazy geometry math and get stuff totally wrong.
    > >
    > > If you are running a new storage system for god sake don't use DOS
    > > partitioning, use GPT or something sane.
    > >
    >
    > I am always using GPT, on all my systems for few years now.
    > Fdisk works exactly the same, regardless of format, regarding alignment
    > and start sectors.

    Yes, fdisk now supports GPT, for about the past two years now. In fact
    it has been completely rewritten.



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