Meaning of blk_size

2000-10-01 Thread Daniel Phillips
After staring at the block device code for, um, quite a long time, I came to the conclusion that blk_size stores one less than the number of 512 byte blocks on a device. Is this true? -- Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message

Re: Meaning of blk_size

2000-10-01 Thread Daniel Phillips
Daniel Phillips wrote: After staring at the block device code for, um, quite a long time, I came to the conclusion that blk_size stores one less than the number of 512 byte blocks on a device. Is this true? Um, slight revision: they wouldn't be blocks, they'd be 'sectors', and there is a

Re: Meaning of blk_size

2000-10-01 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 11:16:23PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: Daniel Phillips wrote: After staring at the block device code for, um, quite a long time, I came to the conclusion that blk_size stores one less than the number of 512 byte blocks on a device. Is this true? No. Um,