From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Block size problem
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 02:58:51 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d6rlbuas.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020910144452.GA29827@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> writes:
> Hello,
>
> my friend has a following problem: He has FAT filesystem on MO disk
> and computer with SCSI drive reading MO disk. The problem is that
> smallest blocksize supported by the driver is larger than 512 bytes
> which FAT needs. What is the right solution?
AFAIK, since originally FAT driver also isn't supporting blocksize
smaller than device sector size, I think he should use blocksize
larger than device sector size.
for example,
$ mkdosfs -S 2048 /dev/xxx
> Another solution I though about is creating loopback directly to
> device but loopback device supports only blocksize same as
> underlying device... So do you think it would be nice/useful if
> loopback device supported any blocksize?
Since it isn't the problem of only FAT, I think it would be useful.
--
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-10 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-10 14:44 Jan Kara
2002-09-10 17:58 ` OGAWA Hirofumi [this message]
2002-09-10 18:03 ` Jan Kara
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