Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 10 Sep 2002 01:01:36 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: One more bio for for floppy users in 2.5.33.. |
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Rogier Wolff wrote: > > ... > > 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. >
You can use the raw driver, or O_DIRECT against /dev/hdXX. That will give 512-byte granularity and no readahead. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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