Re: Reading from cdrom in 2.3.18ac8

David Odin (David.Odin@bigfoot.com)
Thu, 30 Sep 1999 22:16:08 +0200


On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 09:59:59PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30 1999, Mike Frisch wrote:
> > > When playing mp3-files off of a cd with joliet (or joilet?) extensions
> > > in 2.3.18ac8, I get the strangest messages in my syslog. The messages
> > > go like:
> > >
> > > Sep 30 20:33:16 hex kernel: _isofs_bmap: block >= EOF (3028, 6096129)
> >
> > I've noticed the exact same problem with a Sony CRX100E (ATAPI CD-RW drive
> > being used as a CD-ROM drive) and 2.3.18 (SMP w/Ingo's H3 patch). IDE
> > CD-ROM support is compiled as a module (kernel config available to whoever
> > it's useful to)
>
> It's a problem with the page cache read ahead and it affects
> all file systems, isofs is just the only one that bitches
> about it. I think I saw a patch from Chuck Lever that fixed
> it. Try and search the archives.
>
Since this message is really anoying and it report something really harmless,
you can just grep for "_iso_bmap" in linux/fs/isofs/inode.c and
comment out the line with the printk.

just my $ 0.02

DindinX

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