diff --git a/system/cdfs/cdfs-splice_not_sendfile.patch b/system/cdfs/cdfs-splice_not_sendfile.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f38cfb803a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/system/cdfs/cdfs-splice_not_sendfile.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -Nur a/cddata.c b/cddata.c
+--- a/cddata.c	2008-12-08 07:21:37.000000000 -0600
++++ b/cddata.c	2009-02-18 17:34:17.679224488 -0600
+@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
+   .mmap             = generic_file_mmap
+ #else
+   .mmap             = generic_file_readonly_mmap,
+-  .sendfile         = generic_file_sendfile
++  .splice_read      = generic_file_splice_read
+ #endif
+ };
+ 
diff --git a/system/cdfs/cdfs.SlackBuild b/system/cdfs/cdfs.SlackBuild
index 754c48d610..8fead234fc 100644
--- a/system/cdfs/cdfs.SlackBuild
+++ b/system/cdfs/cdfs.SlackBuild
@@ -50,6 +50,11 @@ find . \
  \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) \
  -exec chmod 644 {} \;
 
+# Thanks to "MrWeatherbee" from the Arch forums for the nudge on this :)
+# http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=38894
+# sendfile() is obsolete - use splice()
+patch -p1 < $CWD/cdfs-splice_not_sendfile.patch 
+
 make KDIR=/lib/modules/${KERNEL}/build
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/lib/modules/${KERNEL}/extra
diff --git a/system/cdfs/cdfs.info b/system/cdfs/cdfs.info
index c3add40091..d3731a315a 100644
--- a/system/cdfs/cdfs.info
+++ b/system/cdfs/cdfs.info
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ VERSION="2.6.27"
 HOMEPAGE="http://users.elis.ugent.be/~mronsse/cdfs/"
 DOWNLOAD="http://users.elis.ugent.be/~mronsse/cdfs/download/cdfs-2.6.27.tar.bz2"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
-MD5SUM="ac64c014a90e3c488394832ea29605b3"
+MD5SUM="84366b903d6beb6ddca5ab457bb8ec33"
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 MAINTAINER="Robby Workman"
 EMAIL="rw@rlworkman.net"