Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> > The patch below does two things:
> >
> > (i) fixes a small bug in the new partition code
> > This is the final chunk s/n/slot/. I'll refrain from giving a vi script.
> > This is uncontroversial.
> >
> > (ii) removes ancient garbage concerning disk managers
> > This may well be controversial.
>
> The disk managers where kludgy garbage in first place.
> And nowadays I agree with you: It's not worth to dragg it around.
>
> Indeed. But the change will generate some noise.
> People will get assigned a somewhat different disk geometry
> in many cases and will need some education (or a new fdisk)
> to keep them from worrying.
I'm simply thinking only about the EZ disk remapper in IDE code, which
is able to map access behind physical disk size. Take a look at
do_ide_request() please. It's time to let it go. If someone still needs
to access this kind of disk, he can still do -> /dev/loop is providing
a mechanism for sector remapping.
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