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From: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next end of partition problems?
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:03:03 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A25F5F7.9020506@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4a25b8e987329b28c@agluck-desktop.sc.intel.com>

Luck, Tony wrote:
> I noticed an odd message in the kernel log while booting
> linux-next (tag: next-20090602[*])
> 
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> sdb3: rw=0, want=31664120, limit=31664115
> 
> sdb3 is an ext3 filesystem mounted as /home
> 
> $ grep sdb3 /proc/partitions
>    8       19   15832057 sdb3
> 
> I think /proc/partitions in in KBytes ... so the block (512 Byte)
> count for this partition is 2*15832057 = 31664114 ... so the
> "limit" in the console log looks reasonable, and since the "want"
> is a bigger number, it does seem that we are trying to access
> beyond the device.
> 
> BUT ... I don't get this message when booting a kernel built
> from Linus' tree.

What kind of controller/drive is this? Full dmesg output would be useful..

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-03  4:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-02 23:42 linux-next end of partition problems? Luck, Tony
2009-06-03  4:03 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2009-06-03 21:43   ` Luck, Tony
2009-06-04 13:11     ` Jeff Moyer
2009-06-04 20:33       ` Jens Axboe
2009-06-04 21:20         ` Jeff Moyer

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