Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 30 May 1999 13:50:20 +0100 | From | Kernel Stuffs <> | Subject | Re: CD or iso9660 buglet? |
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On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 11:59:04AM +0100, Riley Williams wrote: > Hi there. > > There appears to be a buglet either in the ATAPI CD driver or in the > iso9660 file system code. Perhaps somebody better placed than I can > check this out... > > The situation is that a CD that I created on my CD-RW drive, where all > files can be read fine under Win95, loses some files under RedHat 6.0 > and the 2.2.5-15 kernel supplied with it. > > The files in question are those right at the end of the CD, so I > suspect a problem connected with the read-ahead system, along the > lines of it's trying to read beyond the end of the CD, and when it > can't, it also fails to return the last few blocks on the CD itself, > thus producing apparently corrupted files. > I have seen this effect on a lot of CD's and also getting files with lots of ??????.????? in the name. The problem of truncated directories I fixed by passing the cruft option. The other problem I have never decided whether my CD-ROM is wearing out or not as a umount/mount fixes the problem.
Graeme
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