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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 12:51:27 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> Oh and the unusual block size stuff seems to be quite easy for the bottom
> layers. The horror lurks up higher. Most file systems can't cope (doesn't
> matter too much), isofs can be mixed block size (bletch) but the killer
> seems to be how you mmap a file on a device with 2326 byte sectors sanely..
> (Just say no ?)

mmap() shouldn't be a problem if you manage to stuff the file
into the page cache ;)

Rik
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