Re: GEOM is too verbose

From: Maxim Sobolev (sobomax_at_portaone.com)
Date: 07/31/04

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    Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 18:32:04 +0300
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>

    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
    diskinfo is possible but is not portable across different unices.

    -Maxim
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