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.

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