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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	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 01:01:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D7DA6E0.4F9B3068@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020910092545.A21776@bitwizard.nl

Rogier Wolff wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> 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.
> 

You can use the raw driver, or O_DIRECT against /dev/hdXX.  That
will give 512-byte granularity and no readahead.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-10  7:41 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
2002-09-10  8:01                         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-07 14:43 linux

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