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Russell King wrote:

>Only if you can reliably know how many bytes you've tranferred when
>an error occurs.  Without that, the only safe way to do a write is
>sector by sector.
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>
What would happen if we failed the entire request? Rewriting a few 
sectors is harmless. Or will it break in more exotic ways?

Rgds
Pierre