>>>>> "Andries" == Andries Brouwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Andries> Anyway, an ioctl just to read the last sector is too silly.
Andries> An ioctl to change the blocksize is more reasonable.
I actually sent you a patch implementing this some time ago, remember?
We need it for XFS...
Patch against 2.4.2-pre3 follows.
--
Martin K. Petersen, Principal Linux Consultant, Linuxcare, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.linuxcare.com/
SGI XFS for Linux Developer, http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/
diff -urN linux/arch/mips64/kernel/ioctl32.c linux-blksetsize/arch/mips64/kernel/ioctl32.c
--- linux/arch/mips64/kernel/ioctl32.c Wed Nov 29 00:42:04 2000
+++ linux-blksetsize/arch/mips64/kernel/ioctl32.c Tue Feb 13 14:15:20 2001
@@ -712,6 +712,7 @@
IOCTL32_HANDLER(BLKPG, blkpg_ioctl_trans),
IOCTL32_DEFAULT(BLKELVGET),
IOCTL32_DEFAULT(BLKELVSET),
+ IOCTL32_DEFAULT(BLKSETSIZE),
IOCTL32_DEFAULT(MTIOCTOP), /* mtio.h ioctls */
IOCTL32_HANDLER(MTIOCGET32, mt_ioctl_trans),
diff -urN linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/ioctl32.c linux-blksetsize/arch/sparc64/kernel/ioctl32.c
--- linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/ioctl32.c Tue Feb 13 14:12:17 2001
+++ linux-blksetsize/arch/sparc64/kernel/ioctl32.c Tue Feb 13 14:15:20 2001
@@ -3107,6 +3107,7 @@
COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(BLKFRASET)
COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(BLKSECTSET)
COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(BLKSSZGET)
+COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(BLKSETSIZE)
/* RAID */
COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(RAID_VERSION)
diff -urN linux/drivers/block/blkpg.c linux-blksetsize/drivers/block/blkpg.c
--- linux/drivers/block/blkpg.c Fri Oct 27 02:35:47 2000
+++ linux-blksetsize/drivers/block/blkpg.c Tue Feb 13 14:15:20 2001
@@ -208,6 +208,7 @@
int blk_ioctl(kdev_t dev, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
{
int intval;
+ long longval;
switch (cmd) {
case BLKROSET:
@@ -258,6 +259,22 @@
longval = g->part[MINOR(dev)].nr_sects;
return put_user(longval, (long *) arg);
#endif
+ case BLKSETSIZE:
+ /* Can be used to set block size from userland. */
+ if(!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ return -EACCES;
+
+ if(!dev || !arg)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ if (get_user(longval, (int *)(arg)))
+ return -EFAULT;
+
+ if (longval > PAGE_SIZE || longval < 512 || (longval & (longval-1)))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ set_blocksize(dev, longval);
+ return 0;
#if 0
case BLKRRPART: /* Re-read partition tables */
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
diff -urN linux/drivers/ide/ide.c linux-blksetsize/drivers/ide/ide.c
--- linux/drivers/ide/ide.c Tue Feb 13 14:12:23 2001
+++ linux-blksetsize/drivers/ide/ide.c Tue Feb 13 14:15:20 2001
@@ -2672,6 +2672,7 @@
case BLKPG:
case BLKELVGET:
case BLKELVSET:
+ case BLKSETSIZE:
return blk_ioctl(inode->i_rdev, cmd, arg);
default:
diff -urN linux/drivers/md/lvm.c linux-blksetsize/drivers/md/lvm.c
--- linux/drivers/md/lvm.c Sun Jan 28 19:11:20 2001
+++ linux-blksetsize/drivers/md/lvm.c Tue Feb 13 14:15:20 2001
@@ -910,6 +910,8 @@
return -EFAULT;
break;
+ case BLKSETSIZE:
+ return blk_ioctl(inode->i_rdev, command, a);
case BLKFLSBUF:
/* flush buffer cache */
diff -urN linux/drivers/md/md.c linux-blksetsize/drivers/md/md.c
--- linux/drivers/md/md.c Tue Feb 13 14:12:24 2001
+++ linux-blksetsize/drivers/md/md.c Tue Feb 13 14:15:20 2001
@@ -2511,6 +2511,9 @@
(long *) arg);
goto done;
+ case BLKSETSIZE:
+ return blk_ioctl(dev, cmd, (long *) arg);
+
case BLKFLSBUF:
fsync_dev(dev);
invalidate_buffers(dev);
diff -urN linux/drivers/scsi/sd.c linux-blksetsize/drivers/scsi/sd.c
--- linux/drivers/scsi/sd.c Tue Feb 13 14:12:32 2001
+++ linux-blksetsize/drivers/scsi/sd.c Tue Feb 13 14:15:21 2001
@@ -234,6 +234,7 @@
case BLKPG:
case BLKELVGET:
case BLKELVSET:
+ case BLKSETSIZE:
return blk_ioctl(inode->i_rdev, cmd, arg);
case BLKRRPART: /* Re-read partition tables */
diff -urN linux/include/linux/fs.h linux-blksetsize/include/linux/fs.h
--- linux/include/linux/fs.h Tue Feb 13 14:12:42 2001
+++ linux-blksetsize/include/linux/fs.h Tue Feb 13 14:15:21 2001
@@ -181,6 +181,7 @@
#define BLKSECTSET _IO(0x12,102)/* set max sectors per request (ll_rw_blk.c) */
#define BLKSECTGET _IO(0x12,103)/* get max sectors per request (ll_rw_blk.c) */
#define BLKSSZGET _IO(0x12,104)/* get block device sector size */
+#define BLKSETSIZE _IO(0x12,108)/* set device block size */
#if 0
#define BLKPG _IO(0x12,105)/* See blkpg.h */
#define BLKELVGET _IOR(0x12,106,sizeof(blkelv_ioctl_arg_t))/* elevator get */
