Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Sep 2002 09:25:45 +0200 | From | Rogier Wolff <> | Subject | Re: One more bio for for floppy users in 2.5.33.. |
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On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 12:03:30PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > It would be simpler if it was nr_of_pages_completed. > > Well.. Maybe.
Ehmm. I'm in the data-recovery business, and we seem to have lost the ability to recover the other 3k of a 4k page if one of the blocks is bad.
And we're annoyed about the read-ahead trying to read blocks past a bad block without returning to the application.
Roger.
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