Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264940AbUALTVH (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 14:21:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265283AbUALTVH (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 14:21:07 -0500 Received: from smtp3.Stanford.EDU ([171.67.16.117]:41624 "EHLO smtp3.Stanford.EDU") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264940AbUALTVF (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 14:21:05 -0500 Message-ID: <4002F317.2070102@myrealbox.com> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:18:47 -0800 From: Andy Lutomirski User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5a (20031223) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: loopback over reiserfs broken in 2.6.1-mm1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1082 Lines: 37 Hi- on 2.6.1-mm1, where /var is reiserfs: [root@luto var]# dd if=/dev/zero of=foo count=1024 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out [root@luto var]# losetup /dev/loop0 foo ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Invalid argument This works on ext3 and XFS, and it worked on -test11. It does not work in /tmp or anything bind-mounted off reiserfs, but it does work in bind mounts from ext3. Any ideas? /proc/mounts: rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/root / ext3 rw,noatime 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 /proc /proc proc rw 0 0 /sys /sys sysfs rw 0 0 usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/hda5 /usr reiserfs rw,noatime 0 0 /dev/hda6 /var reiserfs rw,nosuid 0 0 /dev/hda7 /data xfs rw,noatime,nosuid,usrquota,logbufs=8 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/hda6 /var/tmp reiserfs rw,nosuid 0 0 --Andy - 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/