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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Subject: Re: About dd & make_request
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 16:08:09 +0100
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On Fri, Mar 07 2003, Subodh S wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When run
> 
> dd if=/dev/mydevice of=/dev/null count=10
> 
> why does my make_request function get called only five times ??

because you didn't change the block size, so you got 5 1024b (default)
buffers thrown at you?

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Jens Axboe