Re: "bio too big" error

Andrew Morton
2002-12-11T02:36:28Z

Wil Reichert wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm getting a "bio too big" error with 2.5.50. I've got a 330G lvm2
> partition formatted with ext3 using the -T largefile4 parameter.
> Everything seems ok at first, but any sort of access will die very
> unhappily with said error messsage after about 10 seconds of operation
> or so. The only google search results are the patch submission. Eeek.
>

How odd.

Please send the full diagnostic output.

And add this:

--- 25/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c~a Tue Dec 10 18:42:54 2002
+++ 25-akpm/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c Tue Dec 10 18:43:13 2002
@@ -1921,6 +1921,7 @@ end_io:
bdevname(bio->bi_bdev),
bio_sectors(bio),
q->max_sectors);
+ dump_stack();
goto end_io;
}

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