Re: PATCH] Do not limit RAID1 and DUP transfer length to one stripe

[jim owens <jowens@hp.com>]

Chris Mason wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 02:04:11PM -0500, jim owens wrote:
>> The 65k stripe length should be ignored as the stripes are
>> physically contiguous on disk so transfers can span stripes.
>>
>> +		/* RAID1, DUP, and simple disk stripes are all contiguous */
>>  		*length = em->len - offset;
>>  	}
> 
> We do need to make sure the bio doesn't try to span a chunk.  The
> mapping code can't handle that.

I don't understand what code can't handle it, the em is limited
to a chunk so em->start to em->start + em->len will be reachable
as a single physical disk region for raid1 and dup... right?