Re: set blksize of block device

[Todd Poynor]

Lei Yang wrote:
> Denis Vlasenko wrote:
...
> > Can you use read, write and seek system calls?
...
> Not really, as I've explained, I want to do all these stuff in kernel 
> space. More specifically, I want to write a newbie kernel module. In 
> this module, I'll do something with a raw block device (with no 
> filesystem). For example, I want to do block I/O operations on ramdisk, 
> and I want to set the block size of ramdisk to whatever value I want 
> (power of 2 of course).

Pick up a copy of Linux Device Drivers by Rubini & Corbet (O'Reilly, 
2001) and start with the example ramdisk block driver in chapter 12.

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Todd
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