[PATCH 1/1] determine last ext3 LBA to fix wild LBA reads - v3

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Thu Feb 15 23:25:26 EST 2007


On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 22:57 -0600, Doug Maxey wrote:
> The issue seen in the current code is linux_read_blk() is
> (apparently) looking at the alternate offsets for all possible
> superblocks.  As yaboot scans each partition for all fs types, until
> it finds the appropriate signature, when searching the ext fs, libext2
> appears to calculate some blocks to read that may be 10x the size of
> the actual disk.

Thanks for this I've commited and it'll be in 1.3.14 shortly.

Sorry for the delay.

Paul





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