From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 01:20:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 01:20:10 -0400 Received: from web10406.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.130.98]:12 "HELO web10406.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 01:20:01 -0400 Message-ID: <20010807052011.41452.qmail@web10406.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 15:20:11 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Steve=20Kieu?= Subject: 2.4.7-ac7 kernel, system freezed when copying files onto loop device To: kernel MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I got my system frozen when copying my root partition to a loop device dd if=/dev/zero of=root bs=1k count=100k mke2fs -m 0 root mount -o loop root /mnt/disk tar -xf root.tgz -z (root.tgz is small compressed backup root partition) cd root cp -a * /mnt/disk (the source partition is ext3, target ext2) it runs for a while and system hang.No message, no oopses etc.. It did not happen with 2.4.6 with ext3 version 0.9.5 patch. what is the cause? Regards ===== S.KIEU _____________________________________________________________________________ http://messenger.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Messenger - Voice chat, mail alerts, stock quotes and favourite news and lots more!