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To: Jason Madden <jmadden@spock.shacknet.nu>
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Subject: Re: "mount -o loop" lockup issue
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Jason Madden wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, David E. Weekly wrote:
> 
> > On Linux 2.4.2, running a "mount -o loop" on a file properly created with
> > "dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/my/file.img count=1024" seems to decide to
> > freeze up my shell (not my system). An strace showed the lockup happening at
> > the actual system "mount()" call, which never returns.
....
> I also experience this problem (using a floppy disk image created by
> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy.img bs=1024, and then mount -o loop
> floppy.img /mnt/floppy ) with a different version
> of glibc (RedHat's 2.1.92-5 rpm) and binutils (binutils-2.10.0.18-1). Loop
> is compiled into the kernel.

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Latest loop patch is available at
<ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4.3-pre1/>

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