Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 16:51:01 +0000 From: Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@openet-telecom.com> To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>, Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU>, "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" <drwilco@drwilco.net>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A weird disk behaviour Message-ID: <3C8648F5.1EC1E4EE@openet-telecom.com> References: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0203061132090.5743-100000@onyx>
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Zhihui Zhang wrote: <snip> > ... I also do not read anything during the partial block write, > and I think the disk controller should not do that either. If you do a partial block write, surely at some point the block must be read in order to preserve that segment of data you are _not_ overwriting? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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