On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> That breaks if you do bread() on something less than hardware sector size,
> though. Then all following attempts to read that page (until ->buffers
> is evicted) will keep trying to submit IO on too small buffers.
I don't think that can happen - you can only bread with i_blksize, and the
set_blocksize() stuff refuses to set to smaller than the hardware sector
size.
See
/* Size cannot be smaller than the size supported by the device */
if (size < get_hardsect_size(dev))
return -EINVAL;
in set_blocksize().
Linus
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