From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 01:35:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 01:35:05 -0500 Received: from m2.deja.com ([64.57.169.64]:13352 "EHLO m2.deja.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 01:35:00 -0500 Message-Id: <200101260634.AAA02715@x57.deja.com> From: qkholland@my-deja.com To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.0 loop device still hangs Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 06:34:52 GMT Newsgroups: fa.linux.kernel NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.5.157.48 Organization: Deja.com In-Reply-To: X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Jan 26 06:34:52 2001 GMT X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 lynx:3128 (Squid/2.3.STABLE4-hno.20000819), 1.0 x64.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 192.168.7.1, 24.5.157.48 X-Http-User-Agent: unknown X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDqkholland Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article , Mark Bratcher wrote: > I saw a post dated last fall 2000 sometime about the > loop device hanging when copying large amounts of data > to a file mounted as, say, ext2fs. I've recently reported a similar problem and told by Jens Axboe at SUSE that it is still there, and appears to be generic (not hardware nor kernel configuration specific) problem. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/