Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Patch 1/6] dm: endio method | From | Christophe Saout <> | Date | Sat, 21 Feb 2004 11:44:38 +0100 |
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Am Sa, den 21.02.2004 schrieb Mike Christie um 10:58:
> This is DM's cloned bio. Is there a guarantee that this value should be > safe from lower level drivers overwriting it, or is it similar to b_rdev > for buffer_heads?
The block layer is allowed to remap the device. This is done for partitions, e.g. hda5 -> hda + sector number change (blk_partition_remap).
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