Jens Axboe wrote:
On Mon, Sep 11 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Jens Axboe wrote:
On Mon, Sep 11 2006, Alan Cox wrote:
We could perhaps do it by ATA version - 255 for ATA < 3 256 for ATA 3+,
Might be sane, yep.
Since we're doing this just for paranoia, and nobody can actually
produce a problem case, it's safer just to hardcode 255 for all cases,
than try to come up with a hueristic that won't be exercised for another
decade...
If it's a real problem, yes I agree. If it's just hand waving, then no.
The fact that 2.4 and 2.6 has been using 256 for ages really tells me
that no one has been affected by this. The SUSE bugzilla certainly
hasn't seen any entries on it either.
Most new disks are lba48 anyway. (should we use 65535 there too???)
Heh, good question. Given that the limit is so high, we might as well
just use 65535. It's not nearly as sensitive as the lba28 case.
Well, I _do_ think it's just hand waving, but OTOH I don't see much harm
in using 255. Contiguous 256-sector reads and writes have gotta be
pretty rare. But that's just a hand-waving guess too ;-)
Jeff
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