Re: set blksize of block device

[Lei Yang]

If nobody could answer this question, what about another one? Is there a 
system call or a kernel interface that would allow me to write a block 
of data to block 1 of a certain block device?

Thanks for your reply in advance!

Lei

Lei Yang wrote:

> Please cc me if you have answers to this, I am not on the list. Thanks 
> a lot!
>
> Lei Yang wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am learning block device drivers and have a newbie question. Given 
> > a block device, is there anyway that I could set its block size? For 
> > example, I want to write a block device driver that will work on an 
> > existing block device.  In this driver, I want block size smaller. 
> > (The idea looks confusing but I could explain if anybody is 
> > interested :- )  However,  typically the block size is 1KB, now I 
> > want to set it to 512 or 256.  Can I do it?
> >
> > TIA
> > Lei


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