From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:00:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:00:04 -0400 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:15633 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:59:52 -0400 Subject: Re: why raw devices don't seek above 4GB (sometimes) To: k.lichtenwalder@computer.org Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 21:01:24 +0100 (BST) Cc: xine-user@lists.sourceforge.net (xine discussion list), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3ADC90EB.526BF2FF@computer.org> from "k.lichtenwalder@computer.org" at Apr 17, 2001 08:52:27 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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