Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:10:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:09:56 -0500 Received: from [202.123.212.187] ([202.123.212.187]:33807 "EHLO ns1.b2s.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:09:50 -0500 Message-ID: <3A9D06C7.6CEA9522@vtc.edu.hk> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 22:10:15 +0800 From: Nick Urbanik Organization: Institute of Vocational Education (Tsing Yi) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kernel list Subject: loop hang in 2.4.2 solved in 2.4.2-ac5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=big5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Nick Urbanik, Dept. of Computing and Mathematics Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Tsing Yi) email: nicku@vtc.edu.hk Tel: (852) 2436 8576, (852) 2436 8579 Fax: (852) 2435 1406 pgp ID: 7529555D fingerprint: 53 B6 6D 73 52 EE 1F EE EC F8 21 98 45 1C 23 7B - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/