Re: 2.4.1-ac16 - Loopback device seems broken

[Ville Herva]

On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 08:25:58AM -0000, you [Ole  André  Vadla  Ravnås ] claimed:                                                                       
> I don't know if this is broken in 2.4.1-ac17 and                              
> 2.4.2-pre4, but, what happens when mounting a filesystem                      
> using the loopback device is that the process 'dies' in some                  
> way and there's no way I can kill it.                                         
> This is what I did:                                                           
> mount /test-ext2-image.img /mnt/testimage -o loop,rw -t ext2                  
> And after that there's no way I can get the process killed...                 

Known problem.                                                                  
                                                                                
Go                                                                              
                                                                                
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/people/axboe                                     
                                                                                
and take the latest loop-? patch from there. Let Jens Axboe know if it works    
or if you still have problems. Particularry, if you can reliably reproduce      
the problem you referred.
                                                                                
I hear the patch should get merged to 2.4.1ac soon.                             

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> As I'm not currently subscribed to the linux kernel mailing-list. :-)         

And, your address [e-mail] does not work. I'm kinda
puzzled about how you expect people to reply you. With smoke signals?
                                                                               
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Uh, yeah.
                                                                                
                                                                                
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