Re: Amiga RDB

"Axel Dörfler" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbeos.storage
Message-ID <479876806-BeMail@nichtsnutz>
Tyler Dauwalder <tyler-cyCl/[email protected]> 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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