> > 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. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/