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From: Pat LaVarre <p.lavarre@ieee.org>
To: axboe@suse.de
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2 KiB/block loopback found where
Date: 29 Sep 2003 11:12:50 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1064855570.3184.3.camel@patehci2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030929164654.GS15415@suse.de>

> > I want a 2 KiB/block loopback device ...
> > I get 0.5 KiB/block ...
> > 0.5 KiB divides evenly into 2 KiB.
>
> Add a quick hack to loop
> to set 2kb block size,
> grep for set_blocksize.

Great hint forward, thanks.  My first guess at what we mean follows,
I'll report back to say how this goes.

Pat LaVarre

diff -Nur linux-2.6.0-test6/drivers/block/loop.c linux/drivers/block/loop.c 

--- linux-2.6.0-test6/drivers/block/loop.c	2003-09-27 18:50:29.000000000 -0600
+++ linux/drivers/block/loop.c	2003-09-29 11:06:50.057826432 -0600
@@ -732,7 +732,7 @@
 	mapping_set_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping,
 			     lo->old_gfp_mask & ~(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS));
 
-	set_blocksize(bdev, lo_blocksize);
+	set_blocksize(bdev, 0x800); // not lo_blocksize);
 
 	lo->lo_bio = lo->lo_biotail = NULL; 



  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-29 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-22 22:55 [linux-usb-devel] Re: USB storage problems on OHCI Pat LaVarre
2003-09-29 14:54 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-09-29 15:50   ` 2 KiB/block loopback found where Pat LaVarre
2003-09-29 16:46     ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-29 17:12       ` Pat LaVarre [this message]
2003-09-29 20:02         ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-06 17:12           ` max GiB written per boot Pat LaVarre
2003-10-06 18:12             ` writable mmc profiles actually are writable Pat LaVarre
2003-10-06 18:22               ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-06 18:25                 ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-06 19:50                   ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-06 20:38                     ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-06 20:58                       ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-06 22:14                         ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-06 23:56                           ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-07  5:38                             ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-07  6:45                               ` Matthew Dharm
2003-10-07  6:48                                 ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-07  7:00                                   ` Matthew Dharm
2003-10-07  7:04                                     ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-10 20:36                                       ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-10 21:04                                         ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-10 21:25                                           ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-10 22:43                                             ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-10 23:16                                               ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-11  0:43                                                 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-07 20:46                               ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-07 21:00                                 ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-09 23:01                                   ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-07  7:00                         ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-06 20:10                 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-06 20:28                   ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-06 20:21                 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-06 20:33                   ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-06 21:00             ` max GiB written per boot Pat LaVarre
2003-10-06 23:47               ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-07  5:57                 ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-07 22:12                   ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-10-07 22:57                     ` Willem Riede
2003-10-08  1:27                       ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-10-08  4:34                         ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-10-08  6:44                           ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-09 21:59                     ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-10 20:54                       ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-07  0:51         ` 2 KiB/block loopback found where Pat LaVarre
2003-09-29 17:55     ` aligned /dev/scd$n reads less rare how Pat LaVarre
2003-09-29 19:39       ` zip of GiB cross-platform Pat LaVarre
2003-09-29 19:50         ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-29 19:56           ` Pat LaVarre
2003-10-24 14:41       ` aligned /dev/scd$n reads less rare how Pat LaVarre

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