From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 12:21:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 12:21:17 -0500 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:40714 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 12:20:58 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 17:50:05 +0100 From: Jens Axboe To: Alan Cox Cc: Andre Hedrick , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts.... Message-ID: <20010101175005.B1650@suse.de> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 04:12:41PM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 01 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > mke2fs -b 2048 /dev/hdc > > You must format to 2048 size blocks. > > FAT style FS doesnt support 2K blocks 8) Then don't use FAT on DVD-RAM :-). ide-cd will already appropriately cache a single block and dish out 512b sectors from that as needed for FAT etc when reading. Writing is a bit more difficult, as that then turns out to generate a read before we can commit a dirty block. IMO, this type of thing does not belong in the drivers -- we should _never_ receive request for < hard block size. -- * Jens Axboe * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/