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.... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..
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