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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Any specfs specialists out there ??
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> I have a problem with specfs. In specfs_getpages() all transfers are
> rounded to DEV_BSIZE bytes, that wont do on devices with !=3D 512
> byte sector size.=20
> 
> I need to have the specfs know about the sectorsize, or at least
> the block size of the fs (which then could be set to n*sectorsize)
> 
> The problem is that the struct vop_getpages_args that specfs_getpages()
> gets handed apparently doesn't have any info I can use, well
> I found the blocksize deep down in a structure, but it seems to
> be unset on entry :(
> 
> I faked this by using 2*DEV_BSIZE which works just dandy on my
> 1K sec disks.
> 
> Any good ideas ??

What is this for?

Specfs will be dying soon if devfs becomes standard (specfs and struct
fsops is a crock).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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