blockdev: Remove the --setbsz (set blocksize) option which has never worked.

This option has never worked.  If you try setting the block size on a
block device, and then read it using --getbsz, you will see that the
block size never changes.

The reason for this is because the block size is specific to the
current file descriptor opening the block device, so the change of
block size only persists for as long as blockdev has the device open,
and is lost once blockdev exits.

Also the block size is not really used anywhere.  Filesystems, for
example, have their own idea of block size and ignore this setting
completely.

(Thanks Masayoshi Mizuma for diagnosing the problem)

Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
Richard W.M. Jones 2013-10-08 09:54:10 +01:00 committed by Karel Zak
parent 5d324c6b94
commit b1555acc2f
3 changed files with 1 additions and 15 deletions

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@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ _blockdev_module()
--getalignoff
--getmaxsect
--getbsz
--setbsz
--getsize64
--setra
--getra
@ -29,11 +28,7 @@ _blockdev_module()
--rereadpt
$DEVS"
case $prev in
'--setbsz')
COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "bytes" -- $cur) )
return 0
;;
'--setbsz'|'--setfra')
'--setfra')
COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "sectors" -- $cur) )
return 0
;;

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@ -67,8 +67,6 @@ Print sectorsize in bytes - usually 512.
Get size in 512-byte sectors.
.IP "\fB\-\-rereadpt\fP"
Reread partition table
.IP "\fB\-\-setbsz\fP \fIbytes\fP"
Set blocksize.
.IP "\fB\-\-setfra\fP \fIsectors\fP"
Set filesystem readahead (same like --setra on 2.6 kernels).
.IP "\fB\-\-setra\fP \fIsectors\fP"

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@ -121,13 +121,6 @@ static const struct bdc bdcms[] =
.argtype = ARG_INT,
.argval = -1,
.help = N_("get blocksize")
},{
IOCTL_ENTRY(BLKBSZSET),
.name = "--setbsz",
.argname = "<bytes>",
.argtype = ARG_INT,
.flags = FL_NORESULT,
.help = N_("set blocksize")
},{
IOCTL_ENTRY(BLKGETSIZE),
.name = "--getsize",