linux readahead bug is back

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Fri Nov 23 12:47:33 UTC 2007


Andre Robatino wrote:
>  My father just bought a F8 DVD, but it failed the mediacheck.  
    Send it back. The maker should have been smart enough to try the 
mediacheck on at least one DVD. I got mine from a download of the .iso 
file which I put on a DVD for both F7 and F8 and I did the mediacheck 
and they both passed and loaded working systems.




> It turns out that the vendor failed to apply zero-padding to the ISO 
> file before burning, and that the failure occurs about 40 KB before 
> the end of the disc, presumably due to the readahead bug having 
> returned.  This had been fixed when F7 was released, but apparently is 
> back now in both the updated F7 and F8 kernels.  Anyone know when this 
> regression happened, and if there are plans to fix it?


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