Re: MO-Drive under 2.4.3

[Alan Cox]

> a) Put in lots of bigblock special case code in FAT;
> b) teach submit_bh() or generic_make_request() to transparently reblock 
>    bhs < hw_blksize and remove most special cases from FAT. Specifically,
>    it ought to stop pretending in sb->s_blocksize to use 2k blocks when
>    the fs is really tied to 512 byte blocks.
> 
> I tend to favour b), but which one is more likely to be accepted?

Al Viro suggested c) which was to transparently make it a loopback mount of
the raw device and let a loopback layer do the work.