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From: "Edward Shishkin" <edward.shishkin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Reiser4 and loop device problems
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:03:07 +0300
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On 11/16/07, Arend Freije <afreije@inn.nl> wrote:
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>  Edward Shishkin wrote:
>  On 11/16/07, Arend Freije <afreije@inn.nl> wrote:
>
>
>  Edward Shishkin wrote:
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>
>
>  On Do, 15.11.07 22:49 "Dushan Tcholich" <dusanc@gmail.com> wrote:
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>  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..
>
>
>
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>  On Nov 15, 2007 10:44 PM, Thomas Kuther <gimpel@sonnenkinder.org>
> wrote:
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>
>
>  ...
> * 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,
>
>
>  Hello
>
>
>
>  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?
>
>
>  I tested it a long time ago and there were stall problems.
> Since nobody looked at this for a long time, I think, it would be better
> for this to be disabled..
>  Hi Edward,
>
>  Thanks for your reply. Just to be sure: do you want to disable mounting
> loop devices created with a file containing an image of a Reiser4 file
> system, or do you want to disable mounting loop devices (of any type) on top
> of a already mounted Reiser4 file system?
>

Loop devices created over reiser4 files don't work properly.
Do not try to use them for now.

Thanks,
Edward.