Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Jun 2002 10:35:25 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: PATCH/RFC: fix 2.5.20 ramdisk |
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On Mon, Jun 03 2002, Russell King wrote: > 2.5.20 seems to be incapable of executing binaries in a ramdisk-based > root filesystem. The ramdisk in question is an ext2fs, with a 1K > block size loaded via the compressed ramdisk loader in do_mounts(). > > It appears that, in the case of a 1K block sized filesystem, we attempt > to read two 512-byte sectors into a BIO vector. The first one is copied > into the first 512 bytes. The second sector, however, is copied over > the first 512 bytes. Obviously not what we really want. > > Here is _a_ patch which solves this for me, which may not be correct. > Jens?
Looks good.
-- Jens Axboe
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