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| From: | Bastian Fuchs <bastiaf@×××.de> |
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| To: | gentoo-dev@g.o |
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] dd: reading `/dev/hda7': Input/output error (not a hardware problem) - kernel problem? |
| Date: | Fri, 01 Nov 2002 18:53:33 |
| Message-Id: | 200211020153.11200.bastiaf@gmx.de |
| 1 | > AFAIK, this is a kernel problem--still. The kernel does read-ahead in |
| 2 | > 4096 byte sized chunks; when trying to read the last two blocks it gets |
| 3 | > an error back...the attempt to access beyond the end of the device |
| 4 | > (partition). I've gotten the feeling that kernel developers feel this is |
| 5 | > a bug that doesn't bite in real-life<tm>. It doesn't affect filesystems |
| 6 | > on those partitons. |
| 7 | > |
| 8 | > Thomas "lkml lurker" |
| 9 | |
| 10 | Thanks for answer. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | -Bastian |