On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 12:37:40PM -0500, Peter Jones wrote: > The block layer (or below) does the bogus prefetch. What inhibits this > behavior when you're accessing through a filesystem driver? The file system does the prefetch and it prefetches blocks on a per filebasis (ie /dev/foo asks for "n, n+1, n+2, n+3 /isofs/frob.rpm asks for "n, next block of frob, next but one of frob..." > I think we have exactly the same problem there, and people have > witnessed accesses through the FS fail near the end of the disk with our > install media. To me, it looks like the same behavior. Any specific bugzilla #'s ? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
