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Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 19:36:29 +0100
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Subject: loop device hangs
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From: chris@warande1125.warande.uu.nl (Christian van Enckevort)
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> 10. To Do But Non Showstopper
> 
>      * Loop device can still hang (William Stearns has script that will
>        hang 2.4.0-test7, Peter Enderborg has a short sequence that will
>        hang 2.4.0test9)
I think I have the same problem with 2.4.0-test10 (with rieserfs-patch). 
With small images (initrd-ramdisk) I have no problem, but when I prepare an
ext2fs-image for a backup on CD, the system will invariably hang. For me
this is a showstopper bug. I tried to further investigate this bug. I found
it can also be triggered by running bonnie on an ext2fs-image
(filesize=200Mb). When it hung, the EIP pointed to somewhere in
default_idle. Does anybody have some hints for finding some more useful
information about this bug?

Christian van Enckevort
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