[9060] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Problem with MO in 2.2.16
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Thu Jun 22 14:43:15 2000
To: aeb@veritas.com (Andries Brouwer)
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 19:31:18 +0100 (BST)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <20000622200135.A12247@veritas.com> from "Andries Brouwer" at Jun 22, 2000 08:01:36 PM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> One could make a case for the statement that every heuristic
> in the kernel is wrong. And here we have a heuristic for guessing
> whether the partition table was written using 512-byte or 2048-byte
Why is it a heuristic. The rule should be simple enough
if (partiton > sizeof disk && scaled && partition fits on disk if not scaled)
try unscaled
I'd say its a fairly good rule. I need to figure why its not doing the right
thing. And if I cant figure that in time for .17 I agree entirely its better
out than in
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