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From: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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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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