Changeset 8516 in vbox for trunk/src/VBox/Frontends

Timestamp:

Apr 30, 2008 4:25:57 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

Message:

Add todo, supporting bigger raw disks.

File:

• trunk/src/VBox/Frontends/VBoxManage/VBoxInternalManage.cpp (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/src/VBox/Frontends/VBoxManage/VBoxInternalManage.cpp

@@ -800 +800 @@
     if (!fstat(RawFile, &DevStat) && S_ISBLK(DevStat.st_mode))
     {
+        /** @todo add a BLKGETSIZE64 ioctl here, as it eliminates the 2 TByte
+         * limit. But be careful, Linux 2.4.18 is the first revision with
+         * working BLKGETSIZE64, and in 2.5.x it's pretty random. 2.6.0 works. */
         long cBlocks;
         if (!ioctl(RawFile, BLKGETSIZE, &cBlocks))