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Re: [PATCH] On Linux, read partition start offsets from sysfs if possibl
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Colin Watson |
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Re: [PATCH] On Linux, read partition start offsets from sysfs if possible |
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Thu, 5 Dec 2013 12:22:24 +0000 |
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On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 12:17:23PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> This lets us cope with block device drivers that don't implement
> HDIO_GETGEO. Fixes Ubuntu bug #1237519.
Brandon Hansen also pointed out in this bug that hd_geometry.start is
unsigned long rather than unsigned long long, and thus is not
necessarily reliable on large disks, which is a good point I'd
overlooked, and should be further support for this approach.
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