From: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Subject: RE: Big I/O requests are split into small ones due to unaligned ext4
 partition boundary?
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:53:52 +0000
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        Abel Hu <Chou.Hu@microsoft.com>,
        Thomas Shao <huishao@microsoft.com>,
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