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 05:33:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 05:33:28 -0500 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:44816 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 05:33:20 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 11:28:11 +0100 From: Jens Axboe To: qkholland@my-deja.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mark Bratcher Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.0 loop device still hangs Message-ID: <20010126112811.E12520@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <200101260634.AAA02715@x57.deja.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200101260634.AAA02715@x57.deja.com>; from qkholland@my-deja.com on Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 06:34:52AM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 26 2001, qkholland@my-deja.com wrote: > 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. Yes, and please try: *.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4.1-pre10/loop-3 and see if you can reproduce. -- * Jens Axboe * SuSE Labs - 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/