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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: Changing DEV_BSIZE
To: yenbut@cs.washington.edu (Voradesh Yenbut)
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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
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