Re: block ioctl to read/write last sector

From: Michael E Brown (michael_e_brown@dell.com)
Date: Wed Feb 14 2001 - 00:51:14 EST

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Martin,

It looks like the numbers we picked for our respective IOCTLs conflict.
I think I can change mine to the next higher since your patch seems to
have been around longer. What is the general way to deal with these
conflicts?

--
Michael
On 13 Feb 2001, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> >>>>> "Andries" == Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> writes:
>
> Andries> Anyway, an ioctl just to read the last sector is too silly.
> Andries> An ioctl to change the blocksize is more reasonable.
>
> I actually sent you a patch implementing this some time ago, remember?
> We need it for XFS...
>
> Patch against 2.4.2-pre3 follows.
>
>
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