From: rohrer@fncrd6.fnal.gov (Keith Rohrer) Subject: Re: 1K physical block size (was: loop devices patch for 0.97) Date: 7 Aug 1992 15:42:15 GMT
In article <1992Aug6.235358.17968@bernina.ethz.ch> almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger) writes:
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>This is being changed. Each file system will be able to request the block
>size it likes, e.g. Minix 1 kB, MS-DOS 512 bytes, EXT probably 4 kB, etc.
You might want to use cluster-size blocks on the MS-DOS FS; you could
then use only cluster references except on the low-level read routines,
and maybe gain a little speed and/or elegance?
Or is this an incredibly silly thing to do?
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>- Werner
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