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Russ.Dill@asu.edu said:
> . However, some drivers *cough*jffs2*cough* will make unaligned reads
> from time to time, but only rarely. In this case, the handler speeds
> things up by doing the access, instead of producing an oops. 

Actually JFFS2 does it quite a lot. I added a byte to the dirent structure 
which means the names get unaligned.

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dwmw2