Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jul 2005 20:16:53 +0100 | From | Joel Becker <> | Subject | Re: [rfc patch 2/2] direct-io: remove address alignment check |
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On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 10:50:46AM -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > I believe some OSs do buffered IO, if there is a problem with alignment.
That's what I said. They all do buffered I/O if the alignment is not 512B. They do _not_ try to accept alignments that are smaller. There's no good reason to. It just adds needless complexity.
Joel
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