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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 01/11] block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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>>>>> "Martin" == Martin K Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> writes:

Martin> I agree except I really don't want to lop off anything unless
Martin> the device locks up if we send it partial blocks. There was an
Martin> array that had problems a while back but I believe they have
Martin> been fixed.

Oh, and there are several arrays out there that have allocation units
that are not powers of two. *sigh*

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering
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