On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 02:28:52PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> Is the BLKGETSIZE64 ioctl supposed to return the size of the device in
> bytes (as the comment says, and is implemented in all places *except*
> blkpg.c), or in sectors (as is implemented in blkpg.c since 2.4.15)?
>
> It would seem that blkpg.c gets it wrong, that it should be in bytes.
> Assuming that's the case, here's the patch to fix it against 2.4.18-pre4.
blkpg.c is wrong -- the size has to be in bytes in order to support weird
sector sizes.
-ben
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