| To: | Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: loop stuff |
| From: | David Jez <dave.jez@seznam.cz> |
| Date: | Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:57:09 +0200 |
| Cc: | linux-mips@oss.sgi.com |
| In-reply-to: | <20010327200219.B32706@paradigm.rfc822.org>; from flo@rfc822.org on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 08:02:19PM +0200 |
| References: | <20010327200219.B32706@paradigm.rfc822.org> |
| Sender: | owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com |
| User-agent: | Mutt/1.2.5i |
> Hi, Hi Flo, > 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 ... Unfortunately this isn't a problem with MIPS platform but whole kernel. Loopback is broken. You can use mke2fs -o loop <file> instead /dev/loop0, because loop device will goes to hell. -- ------------------------------------------------------- David "Dave" Jez Brno, CZ, Europe E-mail: dave.jez@seznam.cz PGP key: finger xjezda00@fest.stud.fee.vutbr.cz ---------=[ ~EOF ]=------------------------------------ |
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