Re: 2.4: "access beyond end of device" after ext2 mount

[Andries Brouwer]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 06:45:26AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> > I suppose that what happens is the following:
> > mounting sets the blocksize to 4096.
> > After reading 9992360 sectors, reading the next block means reading
> > the next 8 sectors and that fails because only 6 sectors are left.
> 
> So this is either not a Linux error and not a disk error, its just that the
> "use with filesystem" then "direct access" is a unfortunate combination.

It is not a disk error, but I consider it a Linux error.

> What would be the correct fix for this for this, if any?

For 2.4 my reaction would be to say that it is a known property
of the system, possibly less fortunate, an unimportant flaw.
Of course a fix is possible if this is deemed important for some reason.

> v2.6 should suffer from the same issues?

I don't think so. But 2.6 details are rather different.

Andries
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