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Subject: Re: MO-Drive under 2.4.3
To: kobras@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de (Daniel Kobras)
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 00:59:44 +0100 (BST)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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> a) Put in lots of bigblock special case code in FAT;
> b) teach submit_bh() or generic_make_request() to transparently reblock 
>    bhs < hw_blksize and remove most special cases from FAT. Specifically,
>    it ought to stop pretending in sb->s_blocksize to use 2k blocks when
>    the fs is really tied to 512 byte blocks.
> 
> I tend to favour b), but which one is more likely to be accepted?

Al Viro suggested c) which was to transparently make it a loopback mount of
the raw device and let a loopback layer do the work.

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