--On 18 June 2007 10:59 +0200 Miernik <public@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
These USB sticks are fake, and have a 1 GB flash chip, and a fake controller which makes the computer think it is a 4 GB stick. Any data written past the first 1066401792 bytes is lost, and reading any data over that boundary gives a copy of the last 2048 bytes of the real flash chip, repeated as many times to fill the whole stick.
Hmmmm.... I wonder whether it would be useful for mke2fs etc. to write to sector n-1 and n-2 (where there are n sectors on the disk) and read the sectors back to check the last sectors on the disk actually work. This would detect bad extents very easily and quickly. I am sure there are innocent causes of this problem on other media (i.e. it would be useful beyond fake USB drives) Alex _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
