Re: [PATCH] 2.4.0-test7 to Enable Variable Block Chaining

2000-09-05 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Neil, I think Linus knows this, and from what I've seen, it may break a ton of shit. I think folks need to let Linus know these issues. NT and NetWare both support variable length and offset sectors read/write requests. This fixed block size stuff is tough for non-Linux file systems like NTFS

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.0-test7 to Enable Variable Block Chaining

2000-09-04 Thread Neil Brown
On Saturday September 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Linus, > > The attached patch is submitted to enable variable sector size block > chaining via ll_rw_block() in the I/O subsystem layer. > > Jeff904a905,907 > > / > > // This code is being commented out to allow support for variable chai

[PATCH] 2.4.0-test7 to Enable Variable Block Chaining

2000-09-02 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Linus, The attached patch is submitted to enable variable sector size block chaining via ll_rw_block() in the I/O subsystem layer. Jeff 904a905,907 > / > // This code is being commented out to allow support for variable chained > // block I/O requests. Jeff V. Merkey 915a919 > */