At 00:40 29/09/2000, Matt_Domsch@Dell.com wrote:
> >I'm writing some code to grok the Intel EFI GUID Partition Table structures.
> >To to so, my partition reading code (in fs/partitions) needs to be able to
> >read one physical sector at a time, particularly the first and last sectors
> >on the disk. The bread() function ultimately calls ll_rw_block(), which
> >checks that my read size is the same as the block size, which is 1024 for a
> >SCSI disk, while the physical sector size is 512 bytes. The EFI Spec calls
> >for reading/writing on the physical block size.
You can set the blocksize yourself before reading.
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 02:20:25AM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> And if it has an odd number then you can't read the last sector at all! -
> That's what prevents linear raid and proper NTFS support from working on
> "odd sized" partitions...
But the question was about reading from disk, not about reading
from partition.
> It became apparent that despite that the code in many source files in the
> kernel uses BLOCK_SIZE macro it at the same time assumes that it equals
> 1024, which is, IMHO, a strange thing to assume to say the least, but
> anyway, all those places have to be fixed first.
But BLOCK_SIZE is not what is used. It is only the default.
Actual values are in these arrays.
Andries
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