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 f2SFvCM07649 for linux-mips-outgoing; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 07:57:12 -0800 Received: from boco.fee.vutbr.cz (boco.fee.vutbr.cz [147.229.9.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f2SFvBM07646 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 07:57:11 -0800 Received: from fest.stud.fee.vutbr.cz (fest.stud.fee.vutbr.cz [147.229.9.16]) by boco.fee.vutbr.cz (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f2SFv9t14543 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified OK); Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:57:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from xjezda00@localhost) by fest.stud.fee.vutbr.cz (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f2SFv9T59024; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:57:09 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:57:09 +0200 From: David Jez To: Florian Lohoff Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: loop stuff Message-ID: <20010328175709.C56054@stud.fee.vutbr.cz> References: <20010327200219.B32706@paradigm.rfc822.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010327200219.B32706@paradigm.rfc822.org>; from flo@rfc822.org on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 08:02:19PM +0200 Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk > Hi, Hi Flo, > 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 ... Unfortunately this isn't a problem with MIPS platform but whole kernel. Loopback is broken. You can use mke2fs -o loop instead /dev/loop0, because loop device will goes to hell. -- ------------------------------------------------------- David "Dave" Jez Brno, CZ, Europe E-mail: dave.jez@seznam.cz PGP key: finger xjezda00@fest.stud.fee.vutbr.cz ---------=[ ~EOF ]=------------------------------------