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From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: What to do about the 2TB limit on HDIO_GETGEO ?
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:45:54 -0400
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Greg KH wrote:
>
> If sysfs is stupid, then use an ioctl, have I objected to that?
..

Well, at this point it certainly seems a lot simpler
than trying to get the sysfs "maintainers" to improve it.

Cheers