Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> writes: > I think it can have something to do with the fact that the partition size > is not a multiple of 4k (i.e. expected block size)? Ahh, yes. Except that ext3 sets the blocksize to 1k by default. However, I still can't explain why we don't get an error attempting to access beyond the end of the device. I'll keep digging on that. > BTW: blkdev_max_block() is a terrible name for something that intends to > return size in blocks... Fully agreed here, and I'll fix that up when I get my head completely wrapped around this one. Thanks for taking a look, Jan! -Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html