Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Sep 1999 12:17:35 +0200 (MET DST) | From | (Guest section DW) | Subject | Re: Possible inode.c problem for EXT2 |
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Mike Black:
>> Some of my messages show ASCII data in the "want=" portion of >> the "attempt to access beyond" message.
tytso:
> Well, that means the ext2 filesystem found ASCII data in either the > inode table or an indirect metatdata block.
I don't think so. Look at what is printed:
count = bh->b_size >> 9; sector = bh->b_rsector;
if (...) { printk("attempt to access beyond end of device\n"); printk("%s: rw=%d, want=%d, limit=%d\n", kdevname(bh->b_rdev), rw, (sector + count)>>1, blk_size[major][MINOR(bh->b_rdev)]); }
The want= part is the result of a computation. It would be very surprising if that produced recognizable strings. But of course, 4 random bytes may by coincidence be 4 ASCII bytes.
Andries
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