Hi all,
a problem occured while testing our mkreiserfs utility with different
blocksizes. Now we have the following situation:
ioctl (fd, BLKGETSIZE, &size) returns 5735142 of 512-byte blocks.
1. mkreiserfs /dev/hdf8 --block-size 1024
no problem, block count == 2867571
2. mkreiserfs /dev/hdf8 --blocksize 2048(or 4096)
no problem, block count == 1433785 (or 716892)
3. mount /dev/hdf8, umount
4. mkreiserfs /dev/hdf8 --blocksize 1024(or 2048)
block count == 2867567 (or 1433783), it is a bit different!
ioctl (fd, BLKGETSIZE, &size) always returns the same result,
but we just cannot read the last 3k bytes.
The small program (attached) shows interesting results also.
After
1. mkreiserfs /dev/hdf8 --block-size 1024
2. mount/umount
lseek64 SEEK_END to 2936392704
lseek64 to 2936392704
read a byte
lseek64 to 2936392192
read a byte
lseek64 to 2936391680
read a byte
lseek64 to 2936391168
read a byte
lseek64 to 2936390656
read a byte
lseek64 to 2936390144
read a byte
lseek64 to 2936389632
read a byte
lseek64 to 2936389120
read a byte
lseek64 to 2936388608
read a byte
lseek64 to 2936388096
read a byte
lseek64 to 2936387584
read a byte
lseek64 to 2936387072
read a byte
After
1. mkreiserfs /dev/hdf8 --block-size 2048/4096
2. mount/umount
lseek64 SEEK_END to 2936392704
lseek64 to 2936392704
read a byte
lseek64 to 2936392192
cannot read Input/output error
lseek64 to 2936391680
cannot read Input/output error
lseek64 to 2936391168
cannot read Input/output error
lseek64 to 2936390656
cannot read Input/output error
lseek64 to 2936390144
cannot read Input/output error
lseek64 to 2936389632
cannot read Input/output error
lseek64 to 2936389120
read a byte
lseek64 to 2936388608
read a byte
lseek64 to 2936388096
read a byte
lseek64 to 2936387584
read a byte
lseek64 to 2936387072
read a byte
kernels 2.5.3, 2.4.18.
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Thanks,
Vitaly Fertman