Re: [PATCH] partition fix

[Marcin Dalecki]

[e-mail] 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.