Subject: Re: Supporting sector size != DEV_BSIZE
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From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/12/2002 21:08:47
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On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 08:58:02PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> In any case, it is too coarse, the st_blocks needs to be in units that
> will be no bigger than the minimum allocation unit possible anywhere (and
> while floppies have 128 byte sectors, or once did, and I have used drives
> where the sector size was 256 bytes, in practice, nothing today is likely
> to use less than 512).

Don't hold your breath, but "one day" I'll write that OS9 filesystem code
to read/write my 256 byte/sector OS9 floppies.

(real OS9, before OS9/68k 2.4 introduced the 512 bytes/sector option...)

Regards,
	Ignatios

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