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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Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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