Re: Kernel 2.4.0 loop device still hangs

qkholland
2001-01-26T06:35:14Z

In article <fa.hl5rjsv.1b78u0u@ifi.uio.no>,
Mark Bratcher <mbratche@rochester.rr.com> 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.