On Monday 09 October 2006 23:05, David W. Talmage wrote:

>  With Steve's patch, kern/34737 is reduced to kern/17398, which was
> offerred in 2002.  Why wasn't that committed four years ago?  It
> doesn't solve the general problem of sectors bigger or smaller than
> 512 bytes, I grant you, but it just seems too useful not to commit.

Hmm, I didn't know about that PR. It's possible no developers had access 
to suitable media (with 1KB/2KB physical sectors) with which to test 
the changes. Now that's no longer true, I suspect we'll see those 
changes added fairly soon, at least as a stop-gap until DEV_BSIZE is 
fixed. ;-)

Cheers, Steve