Re: [PROBLEM] 2.4.1 can't mount ext2 CD-ROM

Alan Cox
2001-02-19T01:40:46Z

> So put 0 and sure anyone can submit I/O on the size that they want.
> Now the driver has to support padding reads, or gathering data to do
> a complete block write. This is silly. Sr should support 512b transfers
> just fine, but only because I added the necessary _hacks_ to support
> it. sd doesn't right now for instance.

It is silly to be in the block layer, it is silly to be in each file system.
Perhaps it belongs in the block queueing/handling code or the caches

But it has to go somewhere, and 2.4 right now is unusable on two of my boxes
with M/O drives.