Re: The magical shrinking image (was Re: [coLinux-devel] Failed startup on XP Home Edition SP1a)

[Matt B. <ma...@zi...>]

Okay, it seems there are worse problems than just misreporting the
size in cobd.

It seems in e2fslibs that the size is actually determined by an
algorithm I can't get my weekend brain around, but it does a lot
of seeking and trying to read a byte to get the "real" size.

Armed with this idea I tried to dd if=3D/dev/cobd0 of=3D/dev/null bs=3D1k
count=3D128k (using my 128M image).  I got a stream of I/O errors
near the end and DebugView is filled with several messages starting
with "block io failed: edbb6000 400 (reason: c0000011)".  Goes up
to edea6c00.

I can't find the above DebugView message anywhere in the 0.5.2
colinux source I pulled today.

So I think I'm stuck for the day... hopefully someone smarter than
me can pick it up from here.

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Matt Behrens <ma...@zi...> <http://www.zigg.com/>
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