From: Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com>
To: Doug Maxey <dwm@enoyolf.org>
Cc: Linux PowerPC List <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>, yaboot-devel@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] determine last ext3 LBA to fix wild LBA reads - v3
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:25:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1171542327.3387.70.camel@enki.eridu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1121.1167886652@bebe.enoyolf.org>
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 22:57 -0600, Doug Maxey wrote:
> The issue seen in the current code is linux_read_blk() is
> (apparently) looking at the alternate offsets for all possible
> superblocks. As yaboot scans each partition for all fs types, until
> it finds the appropriate signature, when searching the ext fs, libext2
> appears to calculate some blocks to read that may be 10x the size of
> the actual disk.
Thanks for this I've commited and it'll be in 1.3.14 shortly.
Sorry for the delay.
Paul
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2007-01-04 4:57 [PATCH 1/1] determine last ext3 LBA to fix wild LBA reads - v3 Doug Maxey
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