On Wednesday 06 March 2002 11:43 am, Zhihui Zhang wrote: | In the case of partial block writes, I move to the next block which is | contiguous to the current block. So the start address of each write in | both cases are exactly the same. The only difference is that one write | full blocks, the other write partial blocks. I also do not read anything | during the partial block write, and I think the disk controller should not | do that either.
I guess this was settled pretty well by later mail while I was off-line but, yes, that's exactly what I would suspect is happening. -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) ME --> http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org <-- GOOD GUYS --> http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message