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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 06:46:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Joe Thornber <joe@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: block device size in 2.5
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On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Joe Thornber wrote:

> Why is the total size of a block device held in struct gendisk rather
> than struct block_device ?

It is mirrored into bdev->bd_inode->i_size.  However, struct block_device
is not persistent - persistent stuff lives in struct gendisk.

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