Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

Alan Cox
2007-04-26T13:25:34Z

> > Oh we have scores of these hacks around. Look at the dvd/cd layer. The
> > point is to get rid of those.
>
> Perhaps this is just a matter of cleaning them up so they are no
> longer hacks?

CD and DVD media support various non power-of-two block sizes. Supporting
more block sizes would also be useful as we could then read older smart
media (256byte/sector) without the SCSI layer objecting and the like.