On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:11:46AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Because repair uses direct IO, it cannot do IO smaller than a sector > on the underlying device. When repairing a filesystem image, the > filesystem hosting the image may have a sector size larger than the > sector size of the image, and so single image sector reads and > writes will fail. Does it? Given that the loop driver uses buffered I/O that would be unexpected behaviour. I'll try to reproduce it as soon as my 4k disk is available again. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs