From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: DVD blockdevice buffers
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 16:40:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B0C202E.AA9962AD@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0105231258420.6642-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Now, it may be that the preliminary patches from Andrea do not work this
> way. I didn't look at them too closely, and I assume that Andrea basically
> made the block-size be the same as the page size. That's how I would have
> done it (and then waited for people to find real life cases where we want
> to allow sector writes).
Due to limitations in low-level drivers, Andrea was forced to hardcode
4096 for the block size, instead of using PAGE_SIZE or PAGE_CACHE_SIZE.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-23 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-18 19:02 DVD blockdevice buffers Eduard Hasenleithner
2001-05-18 19:25 ` Jens Axboe
2001-05-18 19:59 ` Eduard Hasenleithner
2001-05-20 2:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-23 17:34 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-23 18:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-23 19:57 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-23 20:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-23 20:40 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2001-05-23 22:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-25 20:12 ` blkdev-pagecache-2 [was Re: DVD blockdevice buffers] Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-25 20:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-23 22:09 ` DVD blockdevice buffers Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-23 22:13 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-23 22:24 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-24 11:36 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-25 15:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-05-25 15:45 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-25 17:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-25 17:40 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-25 18:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-25 18:24 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-25 19:02 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-27 6:38 ` Pavel Machek
2001-05-25 21:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-05-25 21:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-25 22:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-05-19 18:16 Adam Schrotenboer
2001-05-19 22:56 ` Jens Axboe
2001-05-20 1:55 ` Adam Schrotenboer
2001-05-21 15:44 ` Adam Schrotenboer
2001-05-21 15:47 ` Jens Axboe
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