From owner-freebsd-fs Fri Jan 31 11:21:20 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90A3437B401 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 11:21:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A295543F9B for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 11:21:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@freebsd.org) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0VJLG4W024732; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 20:21:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@freebsd.org) To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Steve Byan , David Laight , freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, tech-kern@netbsd.org Subject: Re: DEV_B_SIZE From: phk@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 31 Jan 2003 11:11:27 PST." <20030131191127.GS85104@elvis.mu.org> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 20:21:16 +0100 Message-ID: <24731.1044040876@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <20030131191127.GS85104@elvis.mu.org>, Alfred Perlstein writes: >I hope I'm not mistaken here, but for FFS to work it needs the 512 >byte ops to be atomic, making them not so, or possibly obliterate >surrounding blocks doesn't sound like a good idea at all. UFS/FFS has no 512 bytes binding, it can work in other sectorsizes. The implication is that your fragment size may increase. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message