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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
To: Amit D Chaudhary <amitc@brocade.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mke2fs hangs while running on /dev/loop0 - kernel version 2.4
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 21:46:14 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010227214614.A13399@conectiva.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A9C6184.9050802@brocade.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A9C6184.9050802@brocade.com>; from amitc@brocade.com on Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 06:25:08PM -0800

Em Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 06:25:08PM -0800, Amit D Chaudhary escreveu:
> I am hoping someone knows more about this case. I have a intel pc 
> running linux 2.4 and the last command below hangs and the statements as 
> they are printed. Even kill -9 does not get it to terminate.
> 
> #touch img.test
> #dd if=/dev/zero of=img.test bs=1k count=2000
> 2000+0 records in
> 2000+0 records out
> #losetup /dev/loop0 img.test
> #mke2fs
> 

known bug, try 2.4.2-ac5 (ac6 seems to have some small problems,
Keith seems to have fixed with a patch some moments ago) some friends of
mine said 2.4.2-ac seems to make loop behave, haven't checked

- Arnaldo

  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-28  2:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-28  2:25 mke2fs hangs while running on /dev/loop0 - kernel version 2.4 Amit D Chaudhary
2001-02-28  0:46 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2001-02-28 21:09   ` Amit D Chaudhary

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