Alignment of disk-I/O from userland.

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 23:20:06 +0000, Mark Valentine <mark at valentine.me.uk> said:

> 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.

I think you've got that backwards.  When we had block devices, they
would provide extra buffering to avoid I/O-size breakage.  Character
devices, which are all we have now, never made any promises.

-GAWollman