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Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com> Tue, 18 February 2014 06:17 UTC

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On 2/17/14 at 9:38 PM, watsonbladd@gmail.com (Watson Ladd) wrote:

>The application has to be ready to accept truncations on arbitrary
>subblock boundaries for this to work out.
>That's not the same as semantics indicating the entire file is fine if
>you can read from it.

However, it is a situation that any application that is reading 
files needs to be prepared to handle. Disk errors and all 
that...  Not much different from losing the network connection 
either. In fact, there is probably no way to assure the 
application that it absolutely, no fail -- ever --, will be able 
to read some data, even if the data is all in main memory.

Cheers - Bill

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