Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:44:36 -0500 | From | Lei Yang <> | 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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