Hi Dave! On 10 Jan, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > Joachim F. Selinger wrote: >> 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.
Puh! Thanks. :-) Gruessle Jocki
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