Bug 623667 - seeker hits random bytes unaligened
Summary: seeker hits random bytes unaligened
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: seeker
Version: 13
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Ville Skyttä
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-08-12 13:27 UTC by Ege Turgay
Modified: 2010-08-19 11:24 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: 3.0-3
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-08-19 11:24:01 UTC
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the patched code (4.91 KB, text/plain)
2010-08-12 13:27 UTC, Ege Turgay
no flags Details

Description Ege Turgay 2010-08-12 13:27:58 UTC
Created attachment 438437 [details]
the patched code

Description of problem:
i've been told that it wasn't testing the i/o accurately because it was choosing its starting location as a random number of bytes into the disk, then the most of the time you will need to read two sectors to get 512 bytes.
only if you choose a starting byte divisible by 512 will you read your whole 512 bytes from a single sector. Using direct i/o with memory and buffer alignment fixes this issue as well. One of my colleagues (Mr. Ian Sherratt) patched this, so i don't have a good understanding of the code. I've attached the patched version

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How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. just running the test
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Actual results:
n/a

Expected results:
n/a

Additional info:

Comment 1 Ville Skyttä 2010-08-19 11:24:01 UTC
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=seeker.git;a=commitdiff;h=fe5760ae0e426449aeb7d5357b30a0f9b3749a5d

Thanks, modified patch applied in devel and built for Rawhide, let's see if someone spots a problem with it.


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