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From: Ville Herva <vherva@vianova.fi>
To: Norbert Federa <nfedera@thinstuff.com>
Subject: Re: block2mtd: Overrun end of disk in cache readahead
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On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 09:49:14AM +0200, you [Norbert Federa] wrote:
> Ville,
> Try changing the PAGE_READAHEAD define in
> /drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c from 64 to 0:
> 
> -#define PAGE_READAHEAD 64
> +#define PAGE_READAHEAD 0

Thanks.

Looking at the source, it almost looks like the error message is just a
spurious warning, not a dangerous error. Doesn't this happen when the
underlying device does not end at 64k boundary? And the readahead code just
stops reading ahead after that warning?



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