On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> So if you add a 1-block partition that contains the last
> sector of the disk, all should be fine.
>
Oh! I didn't get your meaning before. I think I understand now. The
problem with this is that the tests for block writeability are not done on
a per-partition basis. They are done on a whole block device basis. see
fs/block_dev.c in block_read() and block_write(). The following test kills
us:
if (blk_size[MAJOR(dev)])
size = ((loff_t) blk_size[MAJOR(dev)][MINOR(dev)] <<
BLOCK_SIZE_BITS) >> blocksize_bits;
else
size = INT_MAX;
while (count>0) {
if (block >= size)
return written ? written : -ENOSPC;
--
Michael Brown
Linux Systems Group
Dell Computer Corp
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