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SubjectRe: What to do about the 2TB limit on HDIO_GETGEO ?
Kay Sievers wrote:
>>
>> And it's not just a few 10s of lines of code currently,
>> but rather about 80-100 lines just to find the correct device subdir,
>> and *then* a few more 10s of lines of code to retrieve the value.
>
> Hmm, 100 lines? What else do you need?
>
> $ grep -l 8:3 /sys/class/block/*/dev
> /sys/class/block/sdc/dev
>

That's particularly funny, because your very own example gives the wrong
result -- sdc is 8:32 not 8:3 (which is sdc3, which is also excluded by
your search.)

Not to mention the fact that it is still O(n).

-hpa


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