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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:44:36 -0500
From: Lei Yang <lya755@ece.northwestern.edu>
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Subject: Re: set blksize of block device
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If nobody could answer this question, what about another one? Is there a 
system call or a kernel interface that would allow me to write a block 
of data to block 1 of a certain block device?

Thanks for your reply in advance!

Lei

Lei Yang wrote:

> 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
>>
>
>
>


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