Andrew> O_DIRECT is broken against RAID0 (at least) in 2.5 at present.
Andrew> The RAID driver gets sent BIOs which straddle two or more
Andrew> chunks and RAID spits out lots of unpleasant warnings. Neil
Andrew> has been informed...
Yep. I've been porting my original kiobuf based request splitter to
biobufs. It's almost there, I've just been extremely busy with
something else for a while.
It's not only when you straddle chunks. The current code does not
handle requests straddling RAID zones either.
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