Re: bug in block_read

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:15:34 -0700 (PDT)


On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Paul Mackerras wrote:
>
> I have fixed (or at least worked around) the problem with this patch:

Not pretty, but I don't see anything better. The "partial block" handling
has caused us headache in the past, and in the long run we should really
do something better (like always use 512-byte blocks or something), but in
the meantime this looks reasonable.

Linus

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