Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Apr 2001 06:52:53 +0200 | From | k.lichtenwalder@computer ... |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > > I set up a raw device: raw /dev/raw/raw1 /dev/hdd > > with /dev/hdd being my DVD drive. > > Xine then does repeated llseeks on /dev/raw/raw1 until it gets above 4G. > > Because /dev/raw/raw1 and the associated /dev/hdd both are on reiserfs, > > and reiserfs has a 4G limit, llseek assumes the same for the associated > > raw devices and returns from the llseek with EINVAL. Bang. > > I don't know whether there's an easy solution. > > That sounds like /dev/raw/.. should have its own lseek method.
Yeah, while going to bed I thought that this can only be cured by doing an raw-device specific lseek method, as lseek has no other means to find out which device this really is. I guess I'll give it a try but I don't know whether I'm up to it.
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