Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Lauri Ojantakanen wrote:
> >
> > [1.] One line summary of the problem:
> >
> > Trouble with 2.3.7 and big files.
>
> I hope that this is fixed already in pre-patch-2.3.8-2, available on
> ftp.kernel.org.
>
> Linus
All of this problem does not seem to be gone with 2.3.8 either. I tried
to unzip one 400M zipped file and it produced a long sequence of
following messages to syslog:
.
.
.
Jun 24 13:19:22 jm22 kernel: 03:05: rw=0, want=1835560308, limit=3076416
Jun 24 13:19:22 jm22 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Jun 24 13:19:22 jm22 kernel: 03:05: rw=0, want=1835560308, limit=3076416
Jun 24 13:19:22 jm22 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Jun 24 13:19:22 jm22 kernel: 03:05: rw=0, want=1835560308, limit=3076416
Jun 24 13:19:22 jm22 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Jun 24 13:19:22 jm22 kernel: 03:05: rw=0, want=1835560308, limit=3076416
Jun 24 13:19:22 jm22 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Jun 24 13:19:22 jm22 kernel: 03:05: rw=0, want=1835560308, limit=3076416
.
.
.
Unzipping resulted an error due to CRC error. I tried to run unzip again
and kernel panic resulted, unfortunately it did not put any output to
/var/log/messages and I cant get any screen dump about it so I just try
to reproduce the problem.
Cheers,
//lauri
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