Subject: Re: Supporting sector size != DEV_BSIZE -- patches
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/06/2002 10:20:46
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, David Laight wrote:

> >
> > 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).
>
> Not last time I looked.....

Ahhh.. Found it. I was wrong, it's not C/H/S, but sector size. I was
remembering Wolfgang Solfrank telling us a few years ago about how FAT
file systems are more intemately concerned with sector size than ffs.

Take care,

Bill