On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> I have one additional user space only idea:
> have you tried raw-io? bind a raw device to the partition, IIRC raw-io
> is always in 512 byte units.
That has been tried. No, it does not work. :-) Using Scsi-Generic is the
only way so far found, but of course, it only works on SCSI drives.
>
> Probably an ioctl is the better idea, but I'd use absolute sector
> numbers (not relative to the end), and obviously 64-bit sector numbers -
> 2 TB isn't that far away.
>
I was deliberately trying to limit the scope to avoid misuse. This is to
work around a flaw in the current API, not to create a new API. Limiting
access to only those blocks that would normally be inaccessible through
the normal API seemed like the best bet to me.
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