Re: [PATCH 00/10] AXFS: Advanced XIP filesystem

2008-09-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Jared Hulbert wrote: > > However, there still are weird things going on, like `find' not seeing all > > files and directories, or just aborting, and `ls -lR' showing actual file > > contents in its output. > > Do you see this behavior for all builds for just the PS3? The `find

Re: [PATCH 00/10] AXFS: Advanced XIP filesystem

2008-09-02 Thread Jared Hulbert
>> 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 bloc

Re: [PATCH 00/10] AXFS: Advanced XIP filesystem

2008-09-02 Thread Jörn Engel
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 differen

Re: [PATCH 00/10] AXFS: Advanced XIP filesystem

2008-09-02 Thread Jared Hulbert
> I found what's wrong. > > The size of an AxFS image created by mkfs.axfs is always n*4096+4 bytes large. > So when it wants to check the magic value in the last 4 bytes, the block layer > tries to read a whole 512-byte sector, which fails for loop-mounted images. > > If you test on real FLASH, ad

Re: [PATCH 00/10] AXFS: Advanced XIP filesystem

2008-09-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Jared Hulbert wrote: > > > The version in SVN seems to be slightly older than the one you submitted? > > > > Oops. Okay I must have neglected to sync at the very end. Thanks. > > > > I forgot, there is also a git repo at > >