From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
To: Lei Yang <lya755@ece.northwestern.edu>
Subject: Re: set blksize of block device
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 09:11:15 +0300
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On Thursday 28 October 2004 05:25, Lei Yang wrote:
> Or in other words, is there generic routines for block devices such that 
> we could:
> 
> get (set) block size of a block device;
> read an existing block (e.g. block 4);
> write an existing block (e.g. block 5);

Can you stick to "reply below quote" style please?

> > 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 

Can you use read, write and seek system calls?
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vda

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