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SubjectRe: Reiserfs corruption on 2.4.17-rc1!
Diego Calleja wrote:

> badblocks -n (non-destructive write-test) -vv /dev/hdc5
> results in:
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> 16:05: rw=0, want=9671068, limit=9671067
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> 16:05: rw=0, want=9671068, limit=9671067
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> 16:05: rw=0, want=9671068, limit=9671067
> 3 bad blocks found
>
> This means it's broken?

No, it is what it says, AFAIK.

read/write/whatever system call tries to access past end of device
although it isn't asked to (or the problem is somewhere deeper). This
has happened to me on swap partition which had fairly dramatic effect.
;-) Not using last few blocks solved the problem. Of course, this
shouldn't be the case...

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Sakari Ailus
sakari.ailus@retiisi.dyndns.org

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