On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sunday 31 May 2009 17:24:03 Andries E. Brouwer wrote: >> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 04:39:11PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: >> >> [HPA stuff deleted] >> >> Hi Bartlomiej, >> >> Apart from HPA one also has DCO, which functions rather similarly. >> (I have not checked whether the current kernel knows anything about DCO.) >> Have you thought about DCO? >> Probably the kernel should by default not touch any such setting. >> Maybe it should be reported? >> A user space utility might change this setting - thus a disk can change size. > > We leave DCO handling entirely to user-space currently. And to the best of my knowledge user-space leaves it entirely to the kernel. ie. There is no opensource Linux solution I know of. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- 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