On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 10:50:46AM -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > I believe some OSs do buffered IO, if there is a problem with alignment.
That's what I said. They all do buffered I/O if the alignment is not 512B. They do _not_ try to accept alignments that are smaller. There's no good reason to. It just adds needless complexity. Joel -- "I think it would be a good idea." - Mahatma Ghandi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization http://www.jlbec.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/