* Hang when using loop device
@ 2001-03-21 4:16 hingwah
2001-03-21 6:33 ` agrawal
2001-03-21 6:42 ` Ville Herva
0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: hingwah @ 2001-03-21 4:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
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
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* Re: Hang when using loop device
2001-03-21 4:16 Hang when using loop device hingwah
@ 2001-03-21 6:33 ` agrawal
2001-03-21 7:23 ` J Sloan
2001-03-21 6:42 ` Ville Herva
1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: agrawal @ 2001-03-21 6:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: hingwah; +Cc: linux-kernel
> 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.
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* Re: Hang when using loop device
2001-03-21 6:33 ` agrawal
@ 2001-03-21 7:23 ` J Sloan
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: J Sloan @ 2001-03-21 7:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel; +Cc: agrawal, hingwah
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
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* Re: Hang when using loop device
2001-03-21 4:16 Hang when using loop device hingwah
2001-03-21 6:33 ` agrawal
@ 2001-03-21 6:42 ` Ville Herva
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Ville Herva @ 2001-03-21 6:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: hingwah; +Cc: linux-kernel
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:16:05PM +0800, you [hingwah@programmer.net] claimed:
> 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
Jens Axboe fixed this. The fix is merged in 2.4.2ac20 and 2.4.3pre6. The fix
will be in 2.4.3. Please search the mailing list archive before asking...
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