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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 23:23:50 -0800
From: J Sloan <jjs@mirai.cx>
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Subject: Re: Hang when using loop device
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agrawal@ais.org wrote:

> > Hello all,
> >
> >       Recently my ext2 partition out of space so I have made a regular file
> > in the FAT32 partition and format it  as ext2 partiton and mount it as
> > loop device.However,occasionaly when I extract a large tar to the loop device..
> > The computer will hang while extracting. I wonder if deadlock occur.
> > I'm using kernel 2.4.1 now and there is no problem when I am using
> > kernel 2.2.x kernel
>
> There are known problems with some of the 2.4 series kernels and loopback
> device support. Look through the kernel archives for Jens Axboe's patches,
> or grab one of the latest ac (Alan Cox) kernels.

The fix is also in the 2.4.3-pre series -

cu

Jup

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