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List:       linux-scsi
Subject:    Re: 2k-sector-problem with new aic7xxx
From:       Theodore Tso <tytso () mit ! edu>
Date:       2001-11-15 19:27:51
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On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 11:21:48PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Ted says, "Mke2fs has always written the superblock by writing a buffer 
> > which is
> > 1k long, regardless of the block size, and it's always worked before,
> > going all the way back to the Linux 0.96 days."
> 
> By luck alone I suspect

Umm... take a look at fs/block_dev.c in 2.2.19, and in 2.4.9; it
explicitly allowed non-block sized, non-block aligned reads and
writes.  This was hardly "luck".

							- Ted
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