Re: mke2fs hangs while running on /dev/loop0 - kernel version 2.4

Re: mke2fs hangs while running on /dev/loop0 - kernel version 2.4

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

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

mke2fs hangs while running on /dev/loop0 - kernel version 2.4

[Amit D Chaudhary]

Hi,

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

mke2fs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=1024 (log=0)
Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
256 inodes, 2000 blocks
100 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=1
1 block group
8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
256 inodes per group

Writing inode tables: done
......

Thanks
Amit

Re: mke2fs hangs while running on /dev/loop0 - kernel version 2.4

[Amit D Chaudhary]

Hi Arnaldo,

Thanks every much for the pointer. Yes, with 2.4.2-ac5 the problem is gone.
Also, there was another similar problem with lilo stalling that is gone too.

Regards
Amit

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:

> 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