From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:05:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:05:06 -0500 Received: from asbestos.brocade.com ([63.121.140.244]:16494 "EHLO mail.brocade.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:04:48 -0500 Message-ID: <3A9D68FE.80104@brocade.com> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 13:09:18 -0800 From: Amit D Chaudhary User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-ac5 i686; en-US; 0.8) Gecko/20010215 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: mke2fs hangs while running on /dev/loop0 - kernel version 2.4 In-Reply-To: <3A9C6184.9050802@brocade.com> <20010227214614.A13399@conectiva.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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