Re: [PATH] A few things for immediate cleanup.

DAVID BALAZIC (david.balazic@uni-mb.si)
Thu, 02 Dec 1999 17:49:56 +0100 (MET)


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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