Subject: Re: Supporting sector size != DEV_BSIZE -- patches
To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/04/2002 08:56:46
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Greywolf wrote:

> Question:
>
> What do we do about media that can have really wacky sector sizes (such
> as CD-ROM devices which purportedly support 2136 bytes/sector or some
> such oddness, I forget the actual size)?

We don't know.

The problem is that with UBC, the VM cache is the main data cache, and it
is in terms of VM pages. 2136 doesn't fit into the size of a VM page very
well, so we're hosed. :-|

Take care,

Bill