Re: Alignment of disk-I/O from userland.

From: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk)
Date: 10/07/03

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    To: Mark Valentine <mark@valentine.me.uk>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 00:36:30 +0200

    In message <200310062220.h96MK7PI061345@dotar.thuvia.org>, Mark Valentine write
    s:

    >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.

    It would be reasonable to make such a statement if you could
    demonstrate an actual application which must depend on this to work.

    The fact is that we currently do not offer any guarantee for disk-I/O
    even correctly reporting failure, unless your memory buffer is
    aligned according to driver specific requirements.

    And yet things still work.

    If I thought there would be any significant breakage (of non-shitty
    code), I would not be in doubt as to what the right thing to do
    would be :-)

    If shitty code breaks, I don't care. We're trying to raise the
    standard in and with FreeBSD, we're not trying to lower the bar
    to make any visual basic programmer pass. 

    -- 
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