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Re: blocksizes



> N.B. So far I have MSDOSFS and FFS running on a disk with 1K sectors
> and I learned that the block size translation is already done
> in our block drivers, so there is no need to funnel I/O through dk.

fdisk(8) and newfs(8) don't work on 2KB/sector MO drive here.
(though newfs_msdos(8) and mount_msdos(8) work)

IMO current blkno translations in wd(4) and sd(4) are just
a hack without consideration to buffercache(9).

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Izumi Tsutsui


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