Date: Wed, 23 Aug 95 20:00:01 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: yenbut@cs.washington.edu (Voradesh Yenbut) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing DEV_BSIZE Message-ID: <9508240200.AA06198@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199508232020.NAA26659@vetch.cs.washington.edu> from "Voradesh Yenbut" at Aug 23, 95 01:20:41 pm
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> In message <199508230718.RAA08698@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes: > >Lots of drivers assume that DEV_BSIZE is 512. > > Hello Bruce, > > Can the block size different from 512 be used some day? I have been > using 512 and 1024-block disk drives for the past 6 months. I had to > hack more than half a dozen of files before FreeBSD can run. It would > be good if I don't have to do it. My 1024 disk drive is a Maxoptic > magnito-optical drive with 1024-block media. Are these bimodal (ie: 512 or 1024) or generalization (n, where n must be at least 512, but no one depends on the value) type fixes? Any change of rolling your diffs back into the main code base? Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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