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Date:      Sat, 31 Jul 2004 20:15:40 +0300
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@portaone.com>
To:        Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GEOM is too verbose
Message-ID:  <410BD3BC.9090704@portaone.com>
In-Reply-To: <864qnoyv06.fsf@kamino.rfc1149.org>
References:  <62768.1091287144@critter.freebsd.dk> <410BBB74.9010804@portaone.com> <864qnoyv06.fsf@kamino.rfc1149.org>

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Arne Schwabe wrote:

> Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@portaone.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>
>>
>>>In message <410BB699.3060803@portaone.com>, Maxim Sobolev writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi Poul,
>>>>
>>>>I use application that detects size of disk using binary search. On
>>>>current each attempt to read beyond disk boundary causes message on
>>>>console, which is annoying. Can you please turn them off, since
>>>>apparently they serve no meaningful purpose.
>>>
>>>Why don't you just use ioctl(DIOC_MEDIASIZE) ?
>>>or the diskinfo(8) program ?
>>
>>It is python program, so that ioctl() is out of question. Usage of
> 
> 
> Hm python has ioctl support, where is the problem?

Really? Anyway, I doubt that name of this ioctl is the same on the 
different unices, so that binary search is still the best from the 
portability POV.

-Maxim



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