From: J Sloan <jjs@mirai.cx>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: agrawal@ais.org, hingwah@programmer.net
Subject: Re: Hang when using loop device
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 23:23:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AB85706.44AC2982@mirai.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10103210132420.4004-100000@SLASH.REM.CMU.EDU>
agrawal@ais.org wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Recently my ext2 partition out of space so I have made a regular file
> > in the FAT32 partition and format it as ext2 partiton and mount it as
> > loop device.However,occasionaly when I extract a large tar to the loop device..
> > The computer will hang while extracting. I wonder if deadlock occur.
> > I'm using kernel 2.4.1 now and there is no problem when I am using
> > kernel 2.2.x kernel
>
> There are known problems with some of the 2.4 series kernels and loopback
> device support. Look through the kernel archives for Jens Axboe's patches,
> or grab one of the latest ac (Alan Cox) kernels.
The fix is also in the 2.4.3-pre series -
cu
Jup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-21 7:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-21 4:16 hingwah
2001-03-21 6:33 ` agrawal
2001-03-21 7:23 ` J Sloan [this message]
2001-03-21 6:42 ` Ville Herva
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