From: Lei Yang <lya755@ece.northwestern.edu>
To: Lei Yang <lya755@ece.northwestern.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: set blksize of block device
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:30:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <417FE937.1040304@ece.northwestern.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <417FE6A8.5090803@ece.northwestern.edu>
Please cc me if you have answers to this, I am not on the list. Thanks a
lot!
Lei Yang wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am learning block device drivers and have a newbie question. Given a
> block device, is there anyway that I could set its block size? For
> example, I want to write a block device driver that will work on an
> existing block device. In this driver, I want block size smaller.
> (The idea looks confusing but I could explain if anybody is interested
> :- ) However, typically the block size is 1KB, now I want to set it
> to 512 or 256. Can I do it?
>
> TIA
> Lei
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-27 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-27 18:19 set blksize of block device Lei Yang
2004-10-27 18:30 ` Lei Yang [this message]
2004-10-28 1:44 ` Lei Yang
2004-10-28 2:25 ` Lei Yang
2004-10-28 6:11 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-28 21:20 ` Lei Yang
2004-10-28 21:50 ` Todd Poynor
2004-10-28 6:09 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-28 16:35 ` Shesha B. Sreenivasamurthy
2004-10-28 21:04 ` Lei Yang
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-28 3:34 Bijoy Thomas
2004-10-28 3:42 ` Lei Yang
2004-11-01 13:55 ` Jon Masters
2004-10-28 6:07 gopu.bhaskar
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