Re: What to do about the 2TB limit on HDIO_GETGEO ?

[H. Peter Anvin]

James Bottomley wrote:
> The expressed preference was simply to expand the ioctl (or add a new
> one that got the required information without having to go through the
> old HDIOGETGEO path to extract the value from a fictitious geometry).
>
> Greg was a bit sceptical of the value of the above proposal ...

However, you have to admit that kind of defeats the whole point of 
having this information in sysfs.  IMNSHO, even scanning sysfs is better 
than keep adding binary ioctls.

	-hpa

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