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Re: a patch for working with HDD images and for newer Intel cards
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Sergey Babkin |
Subject: |
Re: a patch for working with HDD images and for newer Intel cards |
Date: |
Tue, 06 May 2003 10:32:40 -0400 |
address@hidden wrote:
>
> Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> > At Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:06:30 -0400,
> > Sergey Babkin wrote:
> >
> > So I'd like to apply your patch. Pádraig, do you agree?
>
> I don't agree with the patch as it treats files (disk images)
> and disks differently which is confusing at best.
I think that it's Linux who treats the partitions differently.
Note that writing to a partition device (rather than to the whole-disk
device) is a Linux-specific workaround because Linux does not
synchronize the caches of partition and whole-disk devices. So
my patch simply returns things back to normal for the file images.
-SB
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Sergey Babkin address@hidden
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