Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Jeff Moyer <> | | Subject | Re: Kernel 3.3.8 breaks accidental ext3 mount of extended partition | | Date | Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:33:30 -0400 |
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> writes:
> I think it can have something to do with the fact that the partition size > is not a multiple of 4k (i.e. expected block size)?
Ahh, yes. Except that ext3 sets the blocksize to 1k by default. However, I still can't explain why we don't get an error attempting to access beyond the end of the device. I'll keep digging on that.
> BTW: blkdev_max_block() is a terrible name for something that intends to > return size in blocks...
Fully agreed here, and I'll fix that up when I get my head completely wrapped around this one.
Thanks for taking a look, Jan!
-Jeff
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