Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:01:06 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Device Node Issues with recent mm's and udev |
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Joe <joecool1029@gmail.com> wrote: > > This issue started to appear in around the 2.6.11-mm series.. it > continues even now with 2.6.12-rc2-mm3. > > Attempting to copy an image to a device with a tool like dd, results > in the device node being overwritten with the data, but the data is > never sent to the destination drive for instance. > > To try to put it more plainly, I have a firmware image I am copying to > an ipod. Normally the image sends with no issues and the ipod has the > new firmware. > > With the recent mm's it treats the device node as a file and ls -l > will show the size of the image as the size of the device node. > > Even things like fdisk are useless. I am not sure whether this is > some sort of a udev crash or a problem with usb-storage. Nevertheless > it is a problem, and it continues to happen. > > The last non-affected mm i can think of is 2.6.11-rc4-mm1.. though I'm > fairly sure rc5 is good too.
Greg stuff.
Is the device node in /dev actually a block-special device, or is is coming up as a regular file or something?
We might have fixed this. Please retest next -mm, which right now is looking to be ~30 hours away.
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