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From: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
	Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: One more bio for for floppy users in 2.5.33..
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 09:25:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020910092545.A21776@bitwizard.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0209051155091.1307-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>

On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 12:03:30PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > It would be simpler if it was nr_of_pages_completed.
> 
> Well.. Maybe.

Ehmm. I'm in the data-recovery business, and we seem to have lost
the ability to recover the other 3k of a 4k page if one of the blocks 
is bad. 

And we're annoyed about the read-ahead trying to read blocks past
a bad block without returning to the application. 

			Roger.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-10  7:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-03 18:00 One more bio for for floppy users in 2.5.33 Linus Torvalds
2002-09-03 18:02 ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-04  7:25   ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2002-09-04 16:36     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-05  7:03       ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2002-09-05 15:06         ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-05 16:26           ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-05 17:05             ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-05 18:00               ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-05 18:28                 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-05 18:31                   ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-05 18:38                     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-05 18:38                       ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-05 19:47                         ` Peter Osterlund
2002-09-05 18:42                   ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-05 19:03                     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-05 19:35                       ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-05 20:27                         ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-05 20:38                           ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-06  6:47                           ` Helge Hafting
2002-09-06  6:59                             ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-09 14:08                               ` Bob_Tracy
2002-09-05 20:48                         ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-10  7:25                       ` Rogier Wolff [this message]
2002-09-10  8:01                         ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-07 11:18                     ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-03 20:57 ` Mikael Pettersson
2002-09-03 21:52   ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-03 22:33     ` Mikael Pettersson
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2002-09-07 14:43 linux

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