From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
To: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>,
Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mtd <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
tim.bird@am.sony.com, cotte@de.ibm.com, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] AXFS: Advanced XIP filesystem
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 19:15:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080902171500.GC19618@logfs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6934efce0809020944s36dd7f82wec77c4189ef1b114@mail.gmail.com>
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.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-02 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-21 5:44 [PATCH 00/10] AXFS: Advanced XIP filesystem Jared Hulbert
2008-08-21 6:32 ` Frans Meulenbroeks
2008-08-21 19:32 ` Jared Hulbert
2008-08-22 2:04 ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-21 8:39 ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-21 14:19 ` Jared Hulbert
2008-08-21 14:31 ` Leon Woestenberg
2008-08-21 14:42 ` Jared Hulbert
2008-08-21 14:49 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-08-21 10:25 ` Carsten Otte
2008-08-21 10:43 ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-21 12:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-21 14:12 ` Jared Hulbert
2008-08-21 14:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-21 14:13 ` Jared Hulbert
2008-08-22 2:32 ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-21 14:30 ` Jared Hulbert
2008-08-21 11:07 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-08-21 14:11 ` Jared Hulbert
2008-08-22 0:12 ` Greg Ungerer
2008-08-22 2:48 ` Jared Hulbert
2008-08-25 6:35 ` Greg Ungerer
2008-08-25 11:43 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-08-25 14:02 ` Greg Ungerer
2008-08-22 18:13 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-08-22 18:16 ` Jared Hulbert
2008-08-22 18:37 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-08-22 18:43 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-09-12 21:52 ` Jared Hulbert
2008-09-15 16:34 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-09-15 19:43 ` Jared Hulbert
2008-09-19 19:20 ` Trent Piepho
2008-09-16 6:57 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2008-09-16 15:30 ` Jared Hulbert
2008-09-12 20:17 ` Jared Hulbert
2008-09-15 16:40 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-08-21 23:46 ` Greg Ungerer
2008-08-22 18:10 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-08-22 14:54 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-08-22 15:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-22 16:51 ` Jared Hulbert
2008-08-25 9:37 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-08-25 10:52 ` Carsten Otte
2008-08-25 12:16 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-28 15:40 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-09-02 15:37 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-09-02 16:44 ` Jared Hulbert
2008-09-02 17:15 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2008-09-02 17:47 ` Jared Hulbert
2008-09-02 18:33 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-08-22 22:09 ` Will Marone
2008-08-25 7:23 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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