From: Justin Carlson <carlson@sibyte.com>
To: Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: loop stuff
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:06:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0103271008591B.00779@plugh.sibyte.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010327200219.B32706@paradigm.rfc822.org>
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> Hi,
> does anyone know if the 2.4.2 kernel does support loop devices - I mean
> in the sense of - "It works" - I do have problems with processes like
> mke2fs getting hung while accessing the loop without any error message.
>
> I am not running 2.4.x on any other platform so i cant verify ...
>
This probably isn't a MIPS specific problem. It's supposed to be fixed by some
of Jens Axboe's latest stuff, as well as in the 2.4.2ac series on kernel.org;
I'd guess it will be fixed when 2.4.3 is released and imported to
cvs@oss.sgi.com.
-Justin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-27 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-27 18:02 loop stuff Florian Lohoff
2001-03-27 18:06 ` Justin Carlson [this message]
2001-03-27 18:21 ` Jamie Fifield
2001-03-28 15:57 ` David Jez
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