From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Ludovic Drolez <ludovic.drolez@freealter.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BLKBSZSET still not working on 2.4.18 ?
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 17:13:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030110161331.GA19942@win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E1EE7A3.1050401@freealter.com>
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 04:32:51PM +0100, Ludovic Drolez wrote:
> I'm trying to backup a partition on an IDE drive which has an odd number
> of sectors (204939). With a stock open/read you cannot access the last
> sector
>
> What can I do ? Wait for a patch in 2.5.xxx ?
Hmm - I recall fixing this both for 2.4 and 2.5.
If that patch is not part of current 2.4, then probably this should be
regarded as a known deficiency of 2.4. If I were to maintain a stable
2.4 I would not accept such changes.
You can test 2.5. If it is wrong there I must submit a patch.
Andries
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-10 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-10 15:32 BLKBSZSET still not working on 2.4.18 ? Ludovic Drolez
2003-01-10 16:13 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
2003-01-13 11:28 ` Ludovic Drolez
2003-01-13 15:26 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-01-10 17:08 ` Alan Cox
2003-01-10 17:08 ` John Bradford
2003-01-10 18:14 ` Alan Cox
2003-01-10 17:40 ` Andries Brouwer
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