Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 08:37:48 +0100 (MET) From: sos@FreeBSD.org To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Any specfs specialists out there ?? Message-ID: <199701080737.IAA01307@ravenock.cybercity.dk> In-Reply-To: <199701080023.RAA15289@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Jan 7, 97 05:23:24 pm"
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In reply to Terry Lambert who wrote:
> > 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?
It just for me having disks with a 1K sector size, and without this
it fails :(.
> Specfs will be dying soon if devfs becomes standard (specfs and struct
> fsops is a crock).
Yeah, but I wouldn't hold my breath....
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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