From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f2RIMXi05279 for linux-mips-outgoing; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:22:33 -0800 Received: from appliedmicro.ns.ca (dragon.appliedmicro.ns.ca [24.222.12.66]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f2RIMWM05275 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:22:32 -0800 Received: by dragon.appliedmicro.ns.ca id <7308>; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:14:32 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:21:16 -0400 To: Florian Lohoff Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: loop stuff Message-Id: <01Mar27.141432ast.7308@dragon.appliedmicro.ns.ca> References: <20010327200219.B32706@paradigm.rfc822.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <20010327200219.B32706@paradigm.rfc822.org>; from flo@rfc822.org on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:02:19PM -0400 From: fifield@amirix.com (Jamie Fifield) Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk I think Jens' latest loop patches made it into 2.4.3-pre3 (or pre4). Anyway, they're working fine for me on my IA32 workstation. jamie:~$ uname -a Linux jamie 2.4.3-pre8 #1 Mon Mar 26 11:37:58 AST 2001 i686 unknown On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:02:19PM -0400, 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 ... > > Flo > -- > Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5201-669912 > Why is it called "common sense" when nobody seems to have any? > -- Jamie Fifield Software Designer Jamie.Fifield@amirix.com AMIRIX Systems Inc. http://www.amirix.com/ Embedded Debian Project http://www.emdebian.org/ 77 Chain Lake Drive 902-450-1700 x247 (Phone) Halifax, N.S. B3S 1E1 902-450-1704 (FAX)