Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750908AbWBWSQ2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:16:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751067AbWBWSQ2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:16:28 -0500 Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.150]:61600 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750908AbWBWSQ1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:16:27 -0500 Subject: Re: [dm-devel] Re: [PATCH] User-configurable HDIO_GETGEO for dm volumes From: "Darrick J. Wong" Reply-To: "Darrick J. Wong" To: Alasdair G Kergon Cc: device-mapper development , Chris McDermott , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <20060223135639.GK31641@agk.surrey.redhat.com> References: <43F38D83.3040702@us.ibm.com> <20060217151650.GC12173@agk.surrey.redhat.com> <43F6718E.2000908@us.ibm.com> <20060222223240.GI31641@agk.surrey.redhat.com> <1140655617.3300.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060223135639.GK31641@agk.surrey.redhat.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-71EWMkp8uf99Y+4Curub" Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:16:24 -0800 Message-Id: <1140718584.10148.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.5.91 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1428 Lines: 43 --=-71EWMkp8uf99Y+4Curub Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 13:56 +0000, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > My copy of the sd(4) man page says of that ioctl: >=20 > The information returned in the parameter is the disk > geometry of the drive as understood by DOS! This geometry is not > the physical geometry of the drive. It is used when constructing the > drive's partition table, however, and is needed for convenient > operation of fdisk(1), efdisk(1), and lilo(1). If the geometry > information is not available, zero will be returned for all of the > parameters. > =20 > Is there a preferred alternative specification? Hm... in light of that, I'll acquiesce that 0/0/0 is fine by me, and no other behavior is necessary. --D --=-71EWMkp8uf99Y+4Curub Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBD/fv4a6vRYYgWQuURAq7vAKC1m8pWPSlMfpr51lb2vCsC7x+eJwCgnWt2 FiGqWBC6ZOjAwVyj5Cf9yMY= =ujkO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-71EWMkp8uf99Y+4Curub-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/