Re: Problems encrypting disk partitions in 2.4.3

[Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>]

On Thu, 10 May 2001, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
> On Thu, 10 May 2001, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > long term solution would be to make the crypto use 512 byte block size and
> > coalesce to kernel transfer size... then it would be blocksize
> > independent?
> exactly... (assuming 512 bytes are the smallest possible blocksize...)

Floppy disks can go down to 128 byte sectors, but I don't know how the
kernel handles this at the block level. I don't even know if the linux
floppy driver supports 128 byte sectors :-)

In any case I think VFS is limited to smallest block size of 512 bytes, so
this should be a safe assumption...

-Dan


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