chuq@chuq.com (Chuck Silvers) writes:

>on a related note, it does seem odd that the current buf interface has
>the offset of the i/o (b_blkno) in sectors, but the size of the i/o
>(b_bcount) in bytes.  it would be more consistent for both offset and size
>to have the same units.  or are there devices that can read partial
>sectors, but only at the beginning of a sector?

Tape drives do that.

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Christoph Badura					www.netbsd.org

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