From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264402AbUE3VKK (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 May 2004 17:10:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264405AbUE3VKJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 May 2004 17:10:09 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:39069 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264402AbUE3VIa (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 May 2004 17:08:30 -0400 To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Cc: Andries Brouwer , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel , Arjan van de Ven , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.6.x partition breakage and dual booting References: <40BA2213.1090209@pobox.com> <20040530183609.GB5927@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <40BA2E5E.6090603@pobox.com> <20040530200300.GA4681@apps.cwi.nl> <20040530204715.GB12308@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> From: Andreas Schwab X-Yow: .. I'm IMAGINING a sensuous GIRAFFE, CAVORTING in the BACK ROOM of a KOSHER DELI -- Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 23:08:27 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20040530204715.GB12308@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk's message of "Sun, 30 May 2004 21:47:15 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk writes: > On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 10:03:00PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote: >> Clearly, BLKGETSIZE is obsolescent - it should be replaced by >> BLKGETSIZE64 everywhere. 2^41 B is 2 TB, and some RAIDs are larger. > > ITYM "it should be replaced to lseek(fd, SEEK_END, 0) everywhere". ITYM lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END) Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."