Andries Brouwer wrote:
>
> 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, slight revision: they wouldn't be blocks, they'd be 'sectors', and
> > there is a magic shift-by-one in the code I'm looking at, implying 256
> > byte units.
>
> False.
>
> Why don't you ask your real question, instead of coming
> with such vague ..
OK: Could I please have a definition of the quantity that blk_size
stores and what units it uses.
--
Daniel
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