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<<On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 23:20:06 +0000, Mark Valentine <mark@valentine.me.uk> said:

> It would be reasonable to enforce such restrictions on a raw device if
> we still had block devices around, but it doesn't seem reasonable now.

I think you've got that backwards.  When we had block devices, they
would provide extra buffering to avoid I/O-size breakage.  Character
devices, which are all we have now, never made any promises.

-GAWollman