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Manuel,

> It's not a kernel fault, the drive is broken.

Interesting, OK. Just wanted to make sure we didn't have a regression. I
tweaked the capacity reading code recently.

> Still, is there a userspace option (sysfs attribute perhaps) to limit
> disk capacity to a certain block count?

I'm afraid not.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering