Re: RFC: block size identification

[Sven Luther]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 10:46:49AM +0100, Patrick Leslie Polzer wrote:
> 
> Sorry, one paragraph's formatting got messed up.  Here it is:
> 
> Sven:
>  | Nope, this is unrelated.  The information is found in the partition
>  | block but the filesystem layer cannot get it from the partition 
>  | table.
> But I'm talking about the root block of the file system here. 
> If we check every possible end of the first block, we can find out
> indirectly without using the PT what the block size of this file 
> system is.

I don't like this, it is indeed in line with Andrew's way of doing stuff, and
helps with recovery, but i believe also somewhat error prone.

How can you check the possible ends ? I am not all that familiar with block
endings though.

Friendly,

Sven Luther