Re: Reading from cdrom in 2.3.18ac8

Jens Axboe (axboe@image.dk)
Thu, 30 Sep 1999 21:59:59 +0200


On Thu, Sep 30 1999, Mike Frisch wrote:
> > When playing mp3-files off of a cd with joliet (or joilet?) extensions
> > in 2.3.18ac8, I get the strangest messages in my syslog. The messages
> > go like:
> >
> > Sep 30 20:33:16 hex kernel: _isofs_bmap: block >= EOF (3028, 6096129)
>
> I've noticed the exact same problem with a Sony CRX100E (ATAPI CD-RW drive
> being used as a CD-ROM drive) and 2.3.18 (SMP w/Ingo's H3 patch). IDE
> CD-ROM support is compiled as a module (kernel config available to whoever
> it's useful to)

It's a problem with the page cache read ahead and it affects
all file systems, isofs is just the only one that bitches
about it. I think I saw a patch from Chuck Lever that fixed
it. Try and search the archives.

-- 
*  Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk>
*  Linux CD-ROM Maintainer
*  http://www.kernel.dk

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