: This has been an ongoing problem with HPFS in 2.0 and possibly earlier
: (1.3.x). It seems to happen the first time the HPFS partitions are
: accessed after bootup. Here is a dump from today's syslog after I ran
: the "df" command:
: Sep 11 23:11:49 bluesman kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
: Sep 11 23:11:49 bluesman kernel: 03:41: rw=2, want=256001, limit=256000
: Sep 11 23:11:49 bluesman kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
: Sep 11 23:11:49 bluesman kernel: 03:41: rw=2, want=256001, limit=256000
An old but rather harmless problem.
I sent Linus a patch over a year ago:
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