Re: loop stuff

[Justin Carlson <carlson@sibyte.com>]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> Hi,
> does anyone know if the 2.4.2 kernel does support loop devices - I mean
> in the sense of - "It works" - I do have problems with processes like
> mke2fs getting hung while accessing the loop without any error message.
> 
> I am not running 2.4.x on any other platform so i cant verify ...
> 

This probably isn't a MIPS specific problem.  It's supposed to be fixed by some
of Jens Axboe's latest stuff, as well as in the 2.4.2ac series on kernel.org;
I'd guess it will be fixed when 2.4.3 is released and imported to
cvs@oss.sgi.com.

-Justin