It has to do with the fact that you can't read or write part of a block.  I think you 
can ignore the last part of a block, but it becomes useless if you do.

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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Richard Troth
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 12:49 PM
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Subject: Re: LVM under Debian


On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Adam Thornton wrote:
> I think you should be able to get away with a smaller blocksize, though,
> although it's a bad idea for performance reasons.

Digging up from a some-years-old PPT,  I have

                logical > physical okay
                logical < physical NOT OKAY

 ... unless the rules have changed.
It has (or had) something to do with block cache and VFS interworking.

-- R;

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