Joachim F. Selinger wrote: > Hi JFS Team! > > First of all, thanks for the nice work with JFS.
You're welcome. > > I just upgraded to kernel 2.4.16 and patched jfs-1.0.11 into it. > > It runs fine except for a very odd error: > > attempt to access beyond end of device > 03:06: rw=0, want=10490416, limit=10490413 > > Is logged about 10 times when booting and while fsck.jfs is running on the > root partition. > mkfs.jfs and fsck.jfs use a binary search algorithm to determine the size of the partition. They try to read from different sectors until they find the last "good" one. It appears that this is what is causing the warnings. (I'm not sure why the want= number is always the same.) We originally took this algorithm from the e2fsprogs. Looking at them again, it looks like ext2 first tries an IOCTL, and only does the search if it fails. We will try doing the same, and I think this problem will go away. Right now the messages is harmless, but ugly. -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/mailman/listinfo/jfs-discussion
