From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 23 May 2001 16:40:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 23 May 2001 16:40:39 -0400 Received: from panic.ohr.gatech.edu ([130.207.47.194]:60589 "HELO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 23 May 2001 16:40:28 -0400 Message-ID: <3B0C202E.AA9962AD@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 16:40:14 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: MandrakeSoft X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5-pre5 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: DVD blockdevice buffers In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > Now, it may be that the preliminary patches from Andrea do not work this > way. I didn't look at them too closely, and I assume that Andrea basically > made the block-size be the same as the page size. That's how I would have > done it (and then waited for people to find real life cases where we want > to allow sector writes). Due to limitations in low-level drivers, Andrea was forced to hardcode 4096 for the block size, instead of using PAGE_SIZE or PAGE_CACHE_SIZE. -- Jeff Garzik | "Are you the police?" Building 1024 | "No, ma'am. We're musicians." MandrakeSoft |