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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: What to do about the 2TB limit on HDIO_GETGEO ?
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:19:25 -0700
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On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:02:10 -0400 Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:

> Is it time now for HDIO_GETGEO64 to make an appearance?
> Similar to how the existing BLKGETSIZE64 is supplanting BLKGETSIZE ?

That sounds useful.

But you're the one who has investigated this - please make a recommendation?