On 11/06/2014 05:53 PM, Alan Stern wrote: >> But just the simple case of read-capacity failure should we then? > > That's a separate question. As far as I know, the case you are > describing has not come up. > BTW: what we should do is when the partition parser at the block layer see that the partition capacity as written in the partition-table is bigger then the capacity reported for the device we can put a fat message at dmesg with both sizes and user can decide. And/or add an extra field at block attributes for part_capacity. It is info that is known and parsed for today. > Alan Stern Thanks Boaz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html