Re: block ioctl to read/write last sector

Michael E Brown (michael_e_brown@dell.com)
Tue, 13 Feb 2001 23:51:14 -0600 (CST)


Martin,

It looks like the numbers we picked for our respective IOCTLs conflict.
I think I can change mine to the next higher since your patch seems to
have been around longer. What is the general way to deal with these
conflicts?

--
Michael

On 13 Feb 2001, Martin K. Petersen wrote:

> >>>>> "Andries" == Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> writes: > > Andries> Anyway, an ioctl just to read the last sector is too silly. > Andries> An ioctl to change the blocksize is more reasonable. > > I actually sent you a patch implementing this some time ago, remember? > We need it for XFS... > > Patch against 2.4.2-pre3 follows. > >

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