On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:32:50AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > I didn't say the kernel would support this as-is. > > If the partitioning scheme requires writing to the individual > partitions then something would need to be done, such as a simple > offsetting DM driver. Writing partition tables requires writing to them main block device. Seriously - if people want to support block devices nodes > 16TB dealing with this isn't the problem. They'll need to find a way to do buffered I/O without using the pagecache to get it right, at which point blkdev_get_block in either form will simply go away. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
