Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:28:46 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3 |
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> > Oh we have scores of these hacks around. Look at the dvd/cd layer. The > > point is to get rid of those. > > Perhaps this is just a matter of cleaning them up so they are no > longer hacks?
CD and DVD media support various non power-of-two block sizes. Supporting more block sizes would also be useful as we could then read older smart media (256byte/sector) without the SCSI layer objecting and the like.
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