Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Nov 1999 19:49:21 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.28 bugs and things to do. |
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On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Guest section DW wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 09:45:44PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: > > > >On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 08:03:19AM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > >> 3. Running lilo on some (large) disks results in > > >> ll_rw_block: device 08:00: only 1024-char blocks implemented (4096) > > > I have been getting "ll_rw_block: device 08:00: only 1024-char blocks > > implemented (512)" running lilo version 20 since at least 2.3.19. > > > > boot=/dev/sda > > Hmm. Now as far as I can see there is nothing special with lilo, > it is just another program. Perhaps the only unusual part about it > is that it reads and writes the entire disk, rather than a partition. > > Do you also get such errors using dd on the disk? > (It doesnt matter whether you read or write, so probably > reading is better.) > > You confirmed: no loop involved. > No raid involved either?
Possible data point: lilo uses FIBMAP to get the block list for the image.
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