Re: [rfc patch 2/2] direct-io: remove address alignment check

[Joel Becker]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 10:50:46AM -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> I believe some OSs do buffered IO, if there is a problem with alignment.

	That's what I said.  They all do buffered I/O if the alignment
is not 512B.  They do _not_ try to accept alignments that are smaller.
There's no good reason to.  It just adds needless complexity.

Joel

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