On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 03:17:23PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> > Is there an error case that this patch fixes? I've had page alignment
> > checks
> > in my PRD direct_access code forever, and I don't know if they've ever
> > tripped.
> >
>
> Yes! as I said above fix fdisk. You never tripped on it because partitions
> never
> worked and you never tried them. With current code fdisk is very trigger happy
What do you mean with fdisk? which version?
The current fdisk (and cfdisk) follows I/O limits it has no problem
with 4K devices. All you need is to provide all necessary information
by /sys (or ioctls).
> to miss-align my partitions. Depending on size maybe not the very first one
> but the
> consecutive ones easily.
it would be nice to have usable bug report...
Karel
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