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Subject: Re: multiple of sector size I/O restriction 
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In message <20060423183049.0e90ee1e.jylefort@FreeBSD.org>, Jean-Yves Lefort wri
tes:

>Do you think it would be feasible (from a performance and/or
>complexity standpoint) to add the necessary magic to GEOM so that the
>restriction is lifted?

By default: no.

But it would be possible to write a special GEOM class to offer this
functionality.

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