loop hang in 2.4.2 solved in 2.4.2-ac5

Nick Urbanik (nicku@vtc.edu.hk)
Wed, 28 Feb 2001 22:10:15 +0800


Dear folks,

Our server was unable to mount or umount loop devices mounting iso
images; the same problem occurred in 2.4.2-pre[34] and 2.4.2: an
absolute disaster for us; we had to reboot to another kernel just to
make initrd images to boot off SCSI, let alone make software available
to our staff and students.

Now 2.4.2-ac5 works beautifully for us. Thank you to Jens Axboe, Andrea
Arcangeli and Al Viro. And Alan for putting it together.

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Nick Urbanik, Dept. of Computing and Mathematics
Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Tsing Yi)
email: nicku@vtc.edu.hk
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