Re: Kernel 2.4.0 loop device still hangs

Jens Axboe
2001-01-26T10:33:37Z

On Fri, Jan 26 2001, qkholland@my-deja.com wrote:
> 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.

Yes, and please try:

*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4.1-pre10/loop-3

and see if you can reproduce.

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