> devsd's partition commands and devfs's are currently different. Among > other differences, devsd's partitions are defined in terms of sectors > but devfs's are defined in terms of bytes.
another way of saying this is that fs's sector size is one byte. i think it would be more useful to use the least common multiple of the fs's devices' sector sizes. an ata disk, for example can only read in multiples of 512 bytes. so if a partition offset % 512 != 0, a sector-sized read will require reading two sectors. > There's no need to use > prep to configure devfs and it isn't really appropriate. why not use prep to partition an fs device? what is the advantage of making things different. the result of fs's operations is a block device. i would think one should be able to prep it just like a sd device. am i missing something? - erik
