From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>
To: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
Chris McDermott <lcm@us.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] Re: [PATCH] User-configurable HDIO_GETGEO for dm volumes
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:16:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1140718584.10148.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060223135639.GK31641@agk.surrey.redhat.com>
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On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 13:56 +0000, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> My copy of the sd(4) man page says of that ioctl:
>
> The information returned in the parameter is the disk
> geometry of the drive as understood by DOS! This geometry is not
> the physical geometry of the drive. It is used when constructing the
> drive's partition table, however, and is needed for convenient
> operation of fdisk(1), efdisk(1), and lilo(1). If the geometry
> information is not available, zero will be returned for all of the
> parameters.
>
> Is there a preferred alternative specification?
Hm... in light of that, I'll acquiesce that 0/0/0 is fine by me, and no
other behavior is necessary.
--D
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-23 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-15 20:22 [PATCH] User-configurable HDIO_GETGEO for dm volumes Darrick J. Wong
2006-02-15 20:22 ` Darrick J. Wong
2006-02-16 3:05 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-16 3:05 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-17 1:31 ` Darrick J. Wong
2006-02-17 1:31 ` Darrick J. Wong
2006-02-17 1:49 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-17 1:49 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-17 15:16 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2006-02-17 15:16 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2006-02-17 15:21 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2006-02-17 15:21 ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2006-02-18 0:59 ` Darrick J. Wong
2006-02-18 0:59 ` Darrick J. Wong
2006-02-19 1:25 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2006-02-19 1:25 ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2006-02-22 22:32 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2006-02-22 22:32 ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2006-02-23 0:46 ` Darrick J. Wong
2006-02-23 0:46 ` [dm-devel] " Darrick J. Wong
2006-02-23 13:56 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2006-02-23 13:56 ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2006-02-23 18:16 ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
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