To address the concerns of Andi Kleen, with a good suggestion from Richard
Johnson, I have revised my previous patch attempt. Please check this out
and comment.
Changelog:
1) use get_gendisk() instead of walking array manually
2) pass in struct instead of guessing..
+ struct {
+
On 7 Feb 2001, Andi Kleen wrote:
> But what happens when you e.g. run a software blocksize of 4096 and the device
> has >1 inaccessible 512 byte sector at the end?
> I think it would be better to pass in a offset in 512 byte units to a special
> ioctl (and do error checking in the driver for impo
Michael E Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Problem Summary:
> There is no function exported to userspace to read or write the last
> 512-byte sector of an odd-size disk.
>
> The block device uses 1K blocksize, and will prevent userspace from
> seeing the odd-block at the end of the disk,
Problem Summary:
There is no function exported to userspace to read or write the last
512-byte sector of an odd-size disk.
The block device uses 1K blocksize, and will prevent userspace from
seeing the odd-block at the end of the disk, if the disk is odd-size.
IA-64 architecture defines a
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