Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Block size problem | From | OGAWA Hirofumi <> | Date | Wed, 11 Sep 2002 02:58:51 +0900 |
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> writes:
> Hello, > > my friend has a following problem: He has FAT filesystem on MO disk > and computer with SCSI drive reading MO disk. The problem is that > smallest blocksize supported by the driver is larger than 512 bytes > which FAT needs. What is the right solution?
AFAIK, since originally FAT driver also isn't supporting blocksize smaller than device sector size, I think he should use blocksize larger than device sector size.
for example,
$ mkdosfs -S 2048 /dev/xxx
> Another solution I though about is creating loopback directly to > device but loopback device supports only blocksize same as > underlying device... So do you think it would be nice/useful if > loopback device supported any blocksize?
Since it isn't the problem of only FAT, I think it would be useful. -- OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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