Re: access beyond end of device errors in 2.2.12/13pre12

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:45:28 +0100 (BST)


Hi,

On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 12:29:12 +0100, Mark Hagger <mhagger@dera.gov.uk>
said:

> I've seen some reports of people getting "access beyond end of device"
> file access errors in 2.2.12, I have just seen a large number of these
> myself during a program run that was doing considerable file io.

OK, I'd really like to know what sort of IO was going on. Is it heavy,
sustained access to a single large file or is there a lot of open/close
activity going on? Were you deleting data at the time? Allocating
data? If we can get some feedback on the load patterns, that will help.

--Stephen

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