Re: Kernels v4.9+ cause short reads of block devices

[Doug Nazar]

On 8/27/17 3:47 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Note to people: I just committed the patch to update MAX_LFS_FILESIZE.
> I made it use the simpler (and clearer) calculation of
>
>      ((loff_t)ULONG_MAX << PAGE_SHIFT)
>
> for the 32-bit case, and I did *not* change any other users.

Not a problem... I got caught trying to find out why 4.13 hangs on a
warm reset. It has really slowed down my testing having towalk couple
of floors for every reboot.

Doug