Re: Page size andFS blocksize

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> > I was browsing the block device read/write code 
> > in fs/buffer.c (kernel version 2.4.18).
> > From waht I understood,  there is an implicit
> > assumption that filesystem block sizes
> > are never more than the size of a single page.
> 
> Correct.

 Why is this so? Is it because filesystems cannot
read/write parts of a block? Or is it just that
there is no use for such a feature?

-Thanks,
 Ravi.

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