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[openbeosstorage] Re: Amiga RDB

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeosstorage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 12:35:10 +0200 CEST
Tyler Dauwalder <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Actually, partitions can have another block size, at least from the
> > RDB's POV - it defines the block size of the disk, whereas the
> > disk_environment structure defines it for the file system itself.
> Correct me if I'm not following along here, but say you have a disk 
> with an Amiga RDB that has a single Amiga FFS partition. Wouldn't the 
> BDiskDevice partition get the RBD's block size, and the single child 
> BPartition get the disk_environment size?

Of course, we could put it this way. The partition itself doesn't 
define a block size, though, only the disk_environment structure which 
describes the file system (type of, size, reserved blocks, etc.).

Adios...
   Axel.






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