From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nagilum Subject: Re: Problem re-shaping RAID6 Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:53:48 +0200 Message-ID: <20100618125348.50065jeinmy70vsw@cakebox.homeunix.net> References: <20100614091518.2492a9db@notabene.brown> <20100614124723.84152dz5al8096f4@cakebox.homeunix.net> <20100617154708.227cd303@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100617154708.227cd303@notabene.brown> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Neil Brown Cc: linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids ----- Message from neilb@suse.de --------- > A sector will always be 512 bytes to Linux, even when we have drives that can > only do IO in multiples of 8 sectors. Oh, I didn't know that. > Yes, I could possibly use a define for '512'. Some times that is > appropriate, but I thing 512 is so clearly "bytes_per_sector" it would just > add an unnecessary level of indirection. > It is a question of taste really - no right answers. Yep, thanks for the explanation! ======================================================================== # _ __ _ __ http://www.nagilum.org/ \n icq://69646724 # # / |/ /__ ____ _(_) /_ ____ _ nagilum@nagilum.org \n +491776461165 # # / / _ `/ _ `/ / / // / ' \ Amiga (68k/PPC): AOS/NetBSD/Linux # # /_/|_/\_,_/\_, /_/_/\_,_/_/_/_/ Mac (PPC): MacOS-X / NetBSD /Linux # # /___/ x86: FreeBSD/Linux/Solaris/Win2k ARM9: EPOC EV6 # ======================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------- cakebox.homeunix.net - all the machine one needs..