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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

my new disk layer stuff basically works in byte offsets.
it starts with b_blkno, but all comparisins etc. end up being 
u_int64_t based..

(offset_t?)

I'd rather see byte offsets ASAP, so that it matches the resid and
other count values. of course it makes it easier to accidentally
try do non-alligned transfers, but if you are  making that big a,
then othingis likely to help you except having your code rejected
too much.

> 
> >> > I would prefer a transition from b_blkno to b_offset, thereby
> >> > eliminating all the ``shift right here, shift back left there'' mess
> >> > completely.
> 
> I agree.
me too

though I'd like to leave the b_pblkno, or maybe make it a b_poffset.

> 
> --
> Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
> phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."