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To: "David Gomez" <davidge@jazzfree.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>, Linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Copying to loop device hangs up everything
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From: Momchil Velikov <velco@fadata.bg>
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Date: 16 Dec 2001 21:50:23 +0200
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>>>>> "David" == David Gomez <davidge@jazzfree.com> writes:

David> On 16 Dec 2001, Momchil Velikov wrote:

>> [...]
>> 
David> Thanks ;), this patch solves the problem and copying a lot of data to the
David> loop device now doesn't hang the computer.
>> 
David> Is this patch going to be applied to the stable kernel ? Marcelo ?
>> 
>> I've had exactly the same hangups with or without the patch.

David> I've tested several times after applying the loop-deadlock patch and the
David> bug seems to be fixed. No more hangups while copying a lot of data to
David> loopback devices. Post more info about your hangups, maybe is another
David> different loop device deadlock.

Maybe it's different I don't know. Looks like I've found a fix and in
a minute I'll test _without_ the Andrea's patch and post whatever
comes out of it.

Regards,
-velco
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