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On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:45:59AM +0000, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> My problem is that my block driver has a size limit for read and write
> operations.

So fix your driver.  I assume that driver in question is a qemu
BlockDriver and not a kernel driver behind block-raw-posix.c?  At least
for Linux I couldn't think of a way to introduce such an arbitrary limit
anyway.