In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andriy Gapon writes:

>2.3. this code passes to bread blkno that is calculated as 4*sector,
>where sector is a number of a physical 2048-byte sector. [**]
>[**] - I think that this is a requirement of buffcache system, because
>internally it performs many calculations that seem to assume that block
>size is always 512.

Yes, the buf-cache works in 512 bytes units throughout.

>3.1. for a fresh buf getlbk would assign the following:
>bsize = bo->bo_bsize;
>offset = blkno * bsize;

That's clearly wrong.

We need to assert that the blkno is aligned to the start of a sector
and use the 512 byte units, so I guess it would be:

    offset = dbtob(blkno);
    KASSERT(!(offset & (bsize - 1)), ("suitable diagnostic"));


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