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Date:      Mon, 03 Apr 2000 22:33:41 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_mib.c vfs_bio.c src/sys/sys buf.h 
Message-ID:  <23424.954794021@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Apr 2000 06:12:50 %2B1000." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004040545020.977-100000@alphplex.bde.org> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004040545020.977-100000@alphplex.bde.org>, Bruce Eva
ns writes:

>The disk layer already handles special sector sizes without adding much
>overhead to the usual case.  I hope it can do something similar for
>b_offset.  E.g., only one of { b_blkno, b_offset } needs to be valid.
>Theat one could be maintained by all layers and the other one ignored
>by all layers.

Let me see if I read you right:
	a 64bit byte offset in bio->bio_offset
	no bio->bio_*blkno fields
	we retain buf->b_blkno

is that it ?

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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