From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266243AbUGTUUb (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:20:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266263AbUGTUTJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:19:09 -0400 Received: from outpost.ds9a.nl ([213.244.168.210]:59578 "EHLO outpost.ds9a.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266257AbUGTURf (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:17:35 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 22:17:32 +0200 From: bert hubert To: Shesha Sreenivasamurthy Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" , "'kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org'" Subject: Re: O_DIRECT Message-ID: <20040720201732.GA1985@outpost.ds9a.nl> Mail-Followup-To: bert hubert , Shesha Sreenivasamurthy , "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" , "'kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org'" References: <40FD561D.1010404@inostor.com> <20040720184824.GA30090@outpost.ds9a.nl> <40FD6FCB.5020408@inostor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40FD6FCB.5020408@inostor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 12:17:31PM -0700, Shesha Sreenivasamurthy wrote: > Thank you very much Hubert. > > Regarding my second question, what I mean is, to calculate the soft > block size of a partition on which there is no filesystem created, I am > using the IOCTL "BLKBSZGET". Sure - but what do you need this blocksize for? -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://lartc.org Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO