Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 03:00:11 -0600 From: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: blocksize on devfs entries (and related) Message-ID: <l03110700b0b94782e588@[208.2.87.4]> In-Reply-To: <199712140222.MAA04796@word.smith.net.au> References: Your message of "Sat, 13 Dec 1997 20:55:27 -0000." <199712132055.NAA29304@usr06.primenet.com>
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At 8:22 PM -0600 12/13/97, Mike Smith wrote: >> Consider a FAT FS. A FAT FS deals with 1K blocks. But these 1K blocks >> are not constrained to start at an even offset from the start of the >> disk, only from an even cylinder boundry. > >In the light of the nonexistence of "cylinders" in the proposed model, >it strikes me that this becomes an issue of synthesising a conforming >pseudo-geometry at filesystem creation time, and little more. >Compatability is likely an issue there. Compatability is an issue in that the system must be able to accept and create file systems that are acceptable to a foreign OS. Otherwise, why bother with all these exotic file systems :-) This is particularly important with removable media. Richard Wackerbarth
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