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From: Jon Masters <jonmasters@gmail.com>
To: Bijoy Thomas <bijoyjth@gwu.edu>
Cc: Lei Yang <lya755@ece.northwestern.edu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>
Subject: Re: set blksize of block device
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 13:55:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <35fb2e590411010555186f03a1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55dddd455db643.55db64355dddd4@gwu.edu>

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:34:08 -0400, Bijoy Thomas <bijoyjth@gwu.edu> wrote:

> You set the blocksize for block device when you format it.

Just to clear this up for the archives, it's worth explaining the
difference between the various block sizes mentioned - the poster was
referring to hardware block size (e.g. sector size on a hard disk) and
not to the size used within a particular filesystem.

Jon.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-11-01 13:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-28  3:34 set blksize of block device Bijoy Thomas
2004-10-28  3:42 ` Lei Yang
2004-11-01 13:55 ` Jon Masters [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-28  6:07 gopu.bhaskar
2004-10-27 18:19 Lei Yang
2004-10-27 18:30 ` Lei Yang
2004-10-28  1:44   ` Lei Yang
2004-10-28  2:25     ` Lei Yang
2004-10-28  6:11       ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-28 21:20         ` Lei Yang
2004-10-28 21:50           ` Todd Poynor
2004-10-28  6:09     ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-28 16:35     ` Shesha B.  Sreenivasamurthy
2004-10-28 21:04       ` Lei Yang

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