Subject: Re: Supporting sector size != DEV_BSIZE -- patches
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/04/2002 10:36:08
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 04:57:47PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Olaf Seibert wrote:
> >
> > I think the best way to handle this is to run a vnd on top of the other
> > image.
>
> I'm confused - aren't ffs (-like) block pointers in terms of the fragment
> size?

Yes they are.

The questions are:

1) are all internal settings in terms of fs blocks (fragments), or are
some still in terms of the underlying sector size?

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).

Take care,

Bill