From: Ravi <kravi26@yahoo.com>
To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Page size andFS blocksize
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 15:54:09 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021118235409.85266.qmail@web12303.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021118102920.B2928@redhat.com>
> > I was browsing the block device read/write code
> > in fs/buffer.c (kernel version 2.4.18).
> > From waht I understood, there is an implicit
> > assumption that filesystem block sizes
> > are never more than the size of a single page.
>
> Correct.
Why is this so? Is it because filesystems cannot
read/write parts of a block? Or is it just that
there is no use for such a feature?
-Thanks,
Ravi.
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2002-11-17 7:03 Ravi
2002-11-18 10:29 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-11-18 23:54 ` Ravi [this message]
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