Re: [Evms-devel] Re: Re: Hardsector size support in 2.4 and 2.5

Christoph Hellwig (hch@caldera.de)
Mon, 12 Nov 2001 21:27:35 +0100

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 02:05:19PM -0600, Mark Peloquin wrote:
> So any block device, can always expect to receive buffer heads
> whose b_rsector value represents the offset from the beginning
> of that device in 512 byte multiples? And this will continue
> to hold true in 2.5 as well?

There is a good chance that no 2.5 block driver will ever see a buffer_head,
take a look at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/v2.5/ for
details.

Christoph

-- 
Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
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