On Tue, 2 September 2008 09:44:19 -0700, Jared Hulbert wrote: > > How is one expected to read those last 4 bytes of a loopbacked file? > Are they unreadable? We can add the padding. I am just wondering if > this is a bug or a known limitation in the loopback handling or if > there is a different safer way of reading block devs with truncated > last blocks.
Can't you just include the final magic into the last block, thereby making the size a clean multiple of 4k? It looks as if you have some padding before the magic anyway. So you just have to make sure the padding is at least 4 bytes and write the magic to the end of it. Apart from solving this bug, it should also save you some space. ;) Jörn -- Invincibility is in oneself, vulnerability is in the opponent. -- Sun Tzu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
