On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 07:59:15AM -0800, John Nemeth wrote:
> } This is also true when using the raw partition. While access to the disk
> } is bounded by the real size, the disklabel can only store a 32bit number
> } (which is nowadays clamped to the maximum, not just the low 32 bits).
> } The dm driver uses getdisksize() to report device information to
> } LVM and getdisksize() uses DIOCGPARTINFO to retrieve the partition data.
> } It doesn't specially treat the raw partition differently, maybe it
> } just should.
>
> Modern versions of gpt(8) use:
>
> ioctl(gpt->fd, DIOCGMEDIASIZE, &gpt->mediasz)
Saying this...
DIOCGPARTINFO returns the full 64bit media size for the raw partition.
So that problem should be gone since netbsd-8.
Greetings,
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