Re: Is it possible to support a sector size 8192

[Christian Iversen <chrivers@iversen-net.dk>]

On Friday 22 July 2005 20:18, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Johann wrote:
> >Hi everybody,
> >
> >i'm trying to access UDO/WORM mediums (which have a sector size of
> >8192) via a Plasmon UDO drive, but all I get is "unsupported sector
> >size 8192" when I try to access it via /dev/sdX. drivers/scsi/sd.c
> >suggests that the maximum sector size currently supported by Linux is
> >4096.
> >
> >How difficult will it get to support 8192? Maybe we can pay somebody
> >for doing it? (Kernel 2.4.21, RHEL 3.1).
>
> We (at Plasmon) investigated adding support in the kernel, but gave up
> quickly as it looked like it would need a huge amount of work in
> multiple areas. Instead, we've started shipping a userland filesystem
> driver for UDO based on FUSE. If you'd be interested in that, let me
> know...

Wouldn't it be possible to translate the sector size 2:1? For me, it doesn't 
seem that hard to do. But then again, I usually program other things than the 
kernel :)

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Regards,
Christian Iversen