On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Jeff Garzik wrote: >>> >>> <shrug> I suppose... >>> >>> It just seems like a nasty hack, but unfortunately I don't see >>> anyone stepping up to do it properly -- with a DM device >>> automatically layered on top that splits the device into separate >>> regions: one block device for the 'regular' area, and one for the >>> HPA. >> >> Isn't that more hacky? I don't know. All that dm needs to know is >> the location of the metadata which is located w.r.t. the end of the >> device which might be at a different location if BIOS tried to pull >> silly stunts. So, exporting the size BIOS might have used seems like >> a straight forward solution to me. > > "<shrug> I suppose" is basically a reluctant ack, in the absence of other > solutions :) > Couldn't the "fix" also just be a note to users to disable ignore_hpa if they notice that there raid arrays are not assembling correctly? -- Dan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
