From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arend Freije Subject: Re: Reiser4 and loop device problems Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:08:26 +0100 Message-ID: <473D41EA.4020107@inn.nl> References: <5c7c368b0711151455l2cf7a080yff21884e5957d20b@mail.gmail.com> <5c7c368b0711151503p6ae801fcsa3803fbd65443341@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5c7c368b0711151503p6ae801fcsa3803fbd65443341@mail.gmail.com> Sender: reiserfs-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Edward Shishkin Cc: Thomas Kuther , ReiserFS Mailing List Edward Shishkin wrote: >> On Do, 15.11.07 22:49 "Dushan Tcholich" wrote: >> >> >>> Can you remember the last kernel that worked? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Dushan >>> >> Unfortunately not for sure. I'm not even sure if it ever worked at all, >> to be honest. There were some old threads from 2003 saying that loop is >> not supported (yet). Did that ever change? >> > > No, it didn't. > Sorry.. > >> >>> On Nov 15, 2007 10:44 PM, Thomas Kuther >>> wrote: >>> >>>> ... >>>> * filsystem created with >>>> $ mkfs.reiser4 >>>> * mounted with noatime >>>> * no cryptcompress or anything non-default >>>> >>>> $ mount -o loop -t >>>> iso9660 /tmp/systemrescuecd-x86-0.4.0.iso /mnt/cdrom ioctl: >>>> LOOP_SET_FD: Invalid argument >>>> >>>> Hi, Sorry for intruding, but I'm a bit surprised about the conformation on 'loop is not supported (yet)' question. The example of Thomas shows the mounting of an ISO-9960 file system via a loop device. All partions on my system are reiser4, and I can execute 'mount -t iso9960 -o loop' without any problem. Why do you confirm that loop is still not supported? Kind Regards, Arend Freije