Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 20:21:16 +0100 From: phk@freebsd.org To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: Steve Byan <stephen_byan@maxtor.com>, David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, tech-kern@netbsd.org Subject: Re: DEV_B_SIZE Message-ID: <24731.1044040876@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 31 Jan 2003 11:11:27 PST." <20030131191127.GS85104@elvis.mu.org>
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In message <20030131191127.GS85104@elvis.mu.org>, Alfred Perlstein writes: >I hope I'm not mistaken here, but for FFS to work it needs the 512 >byte ops to be atomic, making them not so, or possibly obliterate >surrounding blocks doesn't sound like a good idea at all. UFS/FFS has no 512 bytes binding, it can work in other sectorsizes. The implication is that your fragment size may increase. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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