From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
"Dale R. Worley" <worley@alum.mit.edu>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Large disk drives
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 11:30:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141105193045.GA13265@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1411051130470.1531-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 11:34:11AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> > Sorry, meant to. In principle I'm OK with this as the lever for the
> > hack (largely because it means we don't need to do anything) but will
> > the distributions support it?
>
> While I can't speak for the distributions, it's reasonable to assume
> that if something becomes part of the upstream kernel then they will
> include it.
Btw, we do have precedence for looking at partition tables from SCSI
code with scsi_partsize(), so the layering violation of looking at
EFI labels for disks sizes wouldn't be something entirely new even
if we did it in kernel space.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-05 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-03 21:06 Large disk drives Dale R. Worley
2014-11-04 7:52 ` James Bottomley
[not found] ` <1415087562.2351.3.camel-7O4RPy5TklLPRNG96csxHf8+0UxHXcjY@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-04 16:14 ` Alan Stern
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1411041112010.966-100000-IYeN2dnnYyZXsRXLowluHWD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-05 15:51 ` Dale R. Worley
2014-11-05 16:07 ` James Bottomley
2014-11-05 16:34 ` Alan Stern
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1411051130470.1531-100000-IYeN2dnnYyZXsRXLowluHWD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-05 18:53 ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-11-05 19:30 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
[not found] ` <20141105193045.GA13265-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-06 10:30 ` James Bottomley
2014-11-06 14:33 ` Boaz Harrosh
[not found] ` <545B86AC.3080704-/8YdC2HfS5554TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-06 15:53 ` Alan Stern
2014-11-06 16:43 ` Boaz Harrosh
[not found] ` <545BA52F.6050205-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-06 17:08 ` David Laight
2014-11-06 17:18 ` James Bottomley
2014-11-06 15:54 ` James Bottomley
2014-11-06 16:34 ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-11-06 16:59 ` Alan Stern
2014-11-06 19:23 ` Dale R. Worley
2014-11-06 20:16 ` Alan Stern
2014-11-05 19:15 ` Theodore Ts'o
[not found] ` <20141105191505.GF27083-AKGzg7BKzIDYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-06 19:17 ` Dale R. Worley
2014-11-05 23:30 ` Dale R. Worley
2014-11-06 17:47 ` Alan Stern
2014-11-07 4:53 Norman Diamond
[not found] ` <533357.25557.qm-303aDswoEIZ5hgrKqgaBcEyFvBl6snHEEwWAM/ix52Y@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-07 10:03 ` David Laight
2014-11-08 0:35 ` Norman Diamond
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