Re: [cobalt-users] kernel error: attempt to access beyond end of device

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Dan Keller wrote:

> Strange error message in my log today:
> 
> Mar 20 01:04:02 www kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
> Mar 20 01:04:02 www kernel: 03:03: rw=0, want=240236308, limit=205065
> 
> Yeesh, I don't like the looks of this.  Never seen it before.
> Could it be a buffer that's overflowed or a pointer error in some program?

Dunno, i have one that does it too, and there are posts in the archives
from other folks who asked...no answers...doesn't seem to cause any
problems....

(I have a vague idea why, but i don't really know for certain, the VFS
layer in the older kernel used to do oddball things like this every once
in a while up to around 2.1 when the scsi code got rewritten....)

gsh