On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:37:48 -0500 Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. This can be done via an offsetting driver. > 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, why? I don't see the problem - supporting /dev/sdaX should be straightforward. /dev/sda rarely gets used and would need a bit of special-case handling. Please provide all the details as you see them and stop making me email more questions to you. > 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
