On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 10:54:49AM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: > Really? Because using the BLKGETSIZE64 ioctl() on the device file we get Yes - see the specification. > Yah. Is that hard, e.g. can it be done within a reasonable time frame? > I'd hate to put yet another special case into hal to work around a > kernel bug. It depends when someone with a detailed knowledge of the new block queueing layer in 2.6 has time to look at it. I'm not sufficiently familiar with that code to do it quickly.