>>> Well, if guessing is a function >>> >>> guess_size(disk_size, block_size) >>> >>> then we would be able to do the same on an image file. Christian, would >>> that work? >> >> I think that the geometry values can not always be guessed correctly based on >> block_size and disk_size. >> >> Stefan, can you clarify that? >> >> If we cannot reliably guess the geometry based on blocksize and size, I >> still think >> that we should use the host values, e.g. after checking that BIODASDINFO2 >> returns >> successfully. > > Yeah, but only if it's always possible to force a specific geometry through > the command line - otherwise reproducability suffers.
That is already possible, with the exception of the sector part of the geometry (see the other patch :-) ) Christian
