Re: 2.6.10-as1

[Frank Steiner <fsteiner-mail@bio.ifi.lmu.de>]

Hi Andres, hi Daniel,

sorry for the delayed reply, but I was ill for a few days.

Daniel Drake wrote

> Hi Andres, Frank,
> 
> Andres Salomon wrote:
>>Odd.  I'll have to try Frank's .config and see if I can reproduce it (it
>>doesn't happen w/ mine).
> 
> Here is the patch that fixes it for me:
> 	http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@1.2273.1.9
> Needs to be applied alongside the rlimit and stack expansion fixes.

yes, this one fixes it for me, too. vgchange and "mount -o loop" work again!
I saw it was included in as2, too. I will test as2 during the next days.


> 
> Andres, I have not tried the patch you suggested, since I found that the above 
> one fixes it. However, judging by the description of the one you mailed me, I 
> don't think it will make any difference (I do not use highmem).

The highmem patch doesn't fix it here, but anyway, I've included it
in my patchset because we use CONFIG_4G on all out SMP hosts who have
a few GB of memory.

Thanks for your help!
cu,
Frank


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