Re: a patch for working with HDD images and for newer Intel cards

[Sergey Babkin]

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> 
> Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> > At Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:06:30 -0400,
> > Sergey Babkin wrote:
> >
> > So I'd like to apply your patch. Pádraig, do you agree?
> 
> I don't agree with the patch as it treats files (disk images)
> and disks differently which is confusing at best.

I think that it's Linux who treats the partitions differently.
Note that writing to a partition device (rather than to the whole-disk
device) is a Linux-specific workaround because Linux does not
synchronize the caches of partition and whole-disk devices. So
my patch simply returns things back to normal for the file images.

-SB
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