Re: reading 1 hardsector size, not one block size

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Sep 29 2000 - 03:24:23 EST


> To read say 32 sectors anywhere on the disk, I have to do 1024-byte aligned
> bread()s, possibly doing an unaligned first block, aligned middle, and
> unaligned last block.
>
> Is there an easier method?

Set the block size, but set it back when finished

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