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SubjectRe: [rfc patch 2/2] direct-io: remove address alignment check
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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