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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: [BLOCK] bh: Ensure bh fits within a page
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On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> If you set the alignment for ext3 the same as the size (ie 1024, 2048,
> 4096 for the above respectively) then wouldn't that guarantee not
> straddling a page?

Yes. But then that number must always be a fraction of pagesize.