From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: k.lichtenwalder@computer.org
Cc: xine-user@lists.sourceforge.net (xine discussion list),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why raw devices don't seek above 4GB (sometimes)
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 21:01:24 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E14pbfD-00036X-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ADC90EB.526BF2FF@computer.org> from "k.lichtenwalder@computer.org" at Apr 17, 2001 08:52:27 PM
> I set up a raw device: raw /dev/raw/raw1 /dev/hdd
> with /dev/hdd being my DVD drive.
> Xine then does repeated llseeks on /dev/raw/raw1 until it gets above 4G.
> Because /dev/raw/raw1 and the associated /dev/hdd both are on reiserfs,
> and reiserfs has a 4G limit, llseek assumes the same for the associated
> raw devices and returns from the llseek with EINVAL. Bang.
> I don't know whether there's an easy solution.
That sounds like /dev/raw/.. should have its own lseek method.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-17 20:00 UTC|newest]
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2001-04-17 18:52 k.lichtenwalder
2001-04-17 20:01 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-04-18 4:52 ` [xine-user] " k.lichtenwalder
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