Am 21.02.2012 17:19, schrieb Markus Armbruster: >>>> Oh, and just to open another can of worms: We should probably design in >>>> the notion of media (which can be ejected etc.) and drives (which always >>>> stay there). We don't have a clean separation today. >>> >>> The "closed BDS means no media" thing works, but it's odd. >> >> I'm more talking about data that belongs to the media, like geometry. >> This came up recently with Hervé's floppy patches. > > Is geometry relevant to anything but floppies and really small disks > being accessed via really old interfaces?
Not sure what it's actually used for, but even virtio-blk does have a geometry. But is it really only geometry? I think the read-only flag belongs to the medium as well. There are probably more candidates. Kevin
