----- Message from neilb@suse.de ---------

A sector will always be 512 bytes to Linux, even when we have drives that can
only do IO in multiples of 8 sectors.

Oh, I didn't know that.

Yes,  I could possibly use a define for '512'.  Some times that is
appropriate, but I thing 512 is so clearly "bytes_per_sector" it would just
add an unnecessary level of indirection.
It is a question of taste really - no right answers.

Yep, thanks for the explanation!




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