--- On Fri, 2/8/13, Gordon Ross <[email protected]> wrote:


> 
> I suggest you have a look at this prior work:
> 
> 2949 format(1m) should support megabyte-aligned partitions
> http://www.yalms.org/cr/illumos-2949/
> 
> There were some discussions of it about 6 months ago on
> developers
> (search for issue 2949)
> http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182179/sort/time_rev/?search_for=2949
> 
> Basically, that was a start on the problem, but I missed
> some of the places that know about geometry.
> The fix needs to "hit them all".
> 
> Sorry, I don't have much time to work on this right now,
> so I'd welcome you or anyone else taking it over.

Thanks. Just the sort of thing I wanted.  I quite agree, you've *got* to find 
and fix them all.  Anything less is a disaster waiting to strike.

I'm quite happy to take this on.  I have a reasonable grasp of the issues and 
the amount of context is tractable.  I plan to do a massive "find grep" to look 
for places that deal w/ cylinders, but that doesn't guarantee I'd find 
everything.

I'll read up on that and look at the code.

Have Fun!
Reg


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