Subject: Re: Supporting sector size != DEV_BSIZE -- patches
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/06/2002 09:07:12
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On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 11:44:03PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> >=20
> > 2) what about other file systems that have even stricter requirements
> > (like FAT file systems depend on the C/H/S settings of the underlying
> > device; change them and the fs strictly-speaking needs to be
> > re-formatted).
>=20
> Not last time I looked.....
> IIRC the FAT filesystem supports sector sizes other than 512
> (but the netbsd code probably doesn't)

The AdosFS supports sector sizes !=3D 512 (in theory, multiples of 4 bytes=
=20
over a minimum value which is somewhere below 512 bytes). After the=20
Amiga disksubr.c was fixed one or two years ago, I've tested an adosfs on
a 2k-sektor MO (with our code).

Regards,
	Ignatios

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