Re: BLKBSZSET still not working on 2.4.18 ?

From: Ludovic Drolez (ludovic.drolez@freealter.com)
Date: Mon Jan 13 2003 - 06:28:36 EST


Andries Brouwer wrote:
> You can test 2.5. If it is wrong there I must submit a patch.
> Andries

It seems to work perfectly with 2.5.56 even without using the BLKBSZSET
ioctl.
But, I'm still reluctant to use an unstable kernel for backuping a
partition. But maybe the 2.5 is stable enough to read blocks from
IDE/SCSI drives, and send them over NFSv2 / IPv4 ?

Cheers,

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