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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 14:17:26 +0000
From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Mayank Vasa <mvasa@confluencenetworks.com>
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        Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: rawio usage
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In-Reply-To: <OGEIIBECLDEKAJGFBOGCMEFNCAAA.mvasa@confluencenetworks.com>; from mvasa@confluencenetworks.com on Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 10:36:32PM -0800
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Hi,

On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 10:36:32PM -0800, Mayank Vasa wrote:
> 
> When I run this program as root, I get the error "write: Invalid argument".

Raw IO requires that the buffers are aligned on a 512-byte boundary in
memory.

--Stephen
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