Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 02 Dec 1999 17:49:56 +0100 (MET) | From | DAVID BALAZIC <> | Subject | Re: [PATH] A few things for immediate cleanup. |
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Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de) wrote on Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:58:17 +0100 (CET) :
> You can't emulate a 512kbyte softblocksize with a 2k hardblocksize.
You mean 512 byte , right ?
If so why not ? Because linux doesn't support it ( in which case I am silent ) or because it is impossible ? In that case I must disagree, it _is_ possible.
Reads should be no problem. For writes, either accumulate enough softblocks to write a hardblock, or read the relevant hardblock, update it with the new softblock and write it back. With some caching there would probably be no noticable slowdown.
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