Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:47:53 -0500 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: BLKGETSIZE64 (bytes or sectors?) |
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On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 02:28:52PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > Is the BLKGETSIZE64 ioctl supposed to return the size of the device in > bytes (as the comment says, and is implemented in all places *except* > blkpg.c), or in sectors (as is implemented in blkpg.c since 2.4.15)? > > It would seem that blkpg.c gets it wrong, that it should be in bytes. > Assuming that's the case, here's the patch to fix it against 2.4.18-pre4.
blkpg.c is wrong -- the size has to be in bytes in order to support weird sector sizes.
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