Re: _isofs_bmap problem

Chuck Lever (cel@monkey.org)
Tue, 21 Sep 1999 17:56:42 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, f5ibh wrote:
> when I decompress a tarball (tar xvpzf ...) with the archive on a cdrom, I
> geet the following messages.
>
> _isofs_bmap: block >= EOF (929, 1824891)
> _isofs_bmap: block >= EOF (930, 1824891)
> _isofs_bmap: block >= EOF (931, 1824891)
> _isofs_bmap: block >= EOF (932, 1824891)
> _isofs_bmap: block >= EOF (933, 1824891)
>
> ..
>
> the system begin with the expected behaviour then send these messages and then
> stops.
>
> System is Debian 2.1 with linu 2.3.18.
> the isofs is generated as module.
>
> any ideas?

yes -- the generic_file_readahead function is continuing to request pages
past the end of your file during read-ahead processing.

i've sent alan a suggested fix for the 2.3.18ac series.

- Chuck Lever

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