Re: IDE HPA

[Matthew Garrett]

Molle Bestefich <molle.bestefich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If HPA were exposed as /dev/.../hpa then it wouldn't be possible to
> create such a filesystem. I'm guessing it's not possible with Windows
> either, or with any BIOS-based OS.

Such filesystems already exist. Changing this behaviour now would break
existing setups.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.linux-rutgers.kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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