Re: What to do about the 2TB limit on HDIO_GETGEO ?

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Randy Dunlap wrote:

Come on people, adding symlinks for device major:minor numbers in sysfs
to save a few 10s of lines of userspace code?  Can things get sillier?

You can add a single udev rule to probably build these in a tree in /dev
if you really need such a thing...

And what's wrong with your new ioctl recomendation?

Ah, there's some sanity.  :)


It's not so much an issue of a few tens of lines of user space code, but rather the fact that something that should be O(1) is currently O(n).

	-hpa
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