Re: fs/bio.c - Hardcoded sector size ?

From: linux-kernel-owner
Date: Fri Sep 29 2006 - 15:04:45 EST


On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 11:38:14AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > from bio->bi_bdev->bd_block_size surely - or is some clever code
> > where all block devices have to translate back to 512 byte sectors

> Does this answer it for you?

Ahh, Yup.

Is this documented anywhere ? , I'd suggest a <para> in kernel-api.tmpl
but I'm not sure this is the right place.

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