Re: Reiser4 and loop device problems

["Edward Shishkin" <edward.shishkin@gmail.com>]

> On Do, 15.11.07 22:49 "Dushan Tcholich" <dusanc@gmail.com> 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..

Edward.

>
> Regards,
> Tom
>
>
> > On Nov 15, 2007 10:44 PM, Thomas Kuther <gimpel@sonnenkinder.org>
> > wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > in recent reiser4 it is not possible to loopback mount a file
> > > located on a reiser4 partition
> > >
> > > * kernel 2.6.24-rc2-git5
> > > * reiser4progs 1.0.6
> > > * reiser4 from 2.6.24-rc2-mm1with following series
> > >
> > >         sync_sb_inodes-propagate-errors.patch
> > >         reiser4-sb_sync_inodes.patch
> > >         reiser4-export-remove_from_page_cache.patch
> > >         reiser4-export-find_get_pages.patch
> > >         make-copy_from_user_inatomic-not-zero-the-tail-on-i386-vs-reiser4.patch
> > >         reiser4.patch
> > >         jens-broke-reiser4patch-added-to-mm-tree.patch
> > >
> > > * 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
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Tom
> > >
>