Re: "bio too big" error

Joe Thornber
2002-12-12T09:14:39Z

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 08:21:39AM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10 2002, Wil Reichert wrote:
> > Exact error with debug is:
> >
> > darwin:/a01/mp3s/Skinny Puppy/Too Dark Park# ogg123 -q 01\ -\
> > Convulsion.ogg
> > bio too big device ide0(3,4) (256 > 255)
>
> looks like a one-off in the dm merge_bvec function.

Nope, we're not using merge_bvec yet. Kevin Corry has convinced me
that there is a bug in dms bv splitting code, I'll put out a new
patchset later. However the known bug wouldn't have a stack trace
like this.

- Joe