On Saturday, 24 February 2001, at 12:38:57 -0500, Mark Bratcher wrote: > Has the loop device hang problem that was in kernel 2.4.0 been fixed in > 2.4.1 or 2.4.2? > Tried on 2.4.1 and 2.4.2 with different results: on 2.4.1 I've had no problem mounting loop devices, but creating filesystems on them "hangs" the machine (networking seems to be up for example, but remote login via ssh doesn't work). Under 2.4.2 I've been unable to use loopback devices, but AFAIK this is a known issue in this release. -- José Luis Domingo López Linux Registered User #189436 Debian GNU/Linux Potato (P166 64 MB RAM) jdomingo AT internautas DOT org => Spam at your own risk