From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <20021118235409.85266.qmail@web12303.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 15:54:09 -0800 (PST) From: Ravi Subject: Re: Page size andFS blocksize In-Reply-To: <20021118102920.B2928@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Cc: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > > 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. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/