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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH] dm-ebs: Mark full buffer dirty even on partial
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On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 06:21:56PM +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> OK - I accepted Uladzislau's patch. As logical block size and physical 
> block size seem to be unreliable, it's better to set the size in dm-ebs.

logical and physical block size are reliable.  Uladzislau just seems
to have a completely broken device that needs fixing, because it will
run into all kinds of other problems otherwise.