Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Mar 2001 23:23:50 -0800 | From | J Sloan <> | Subject | Re: Hang when using loop device |
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agrawal@ais.org wrote:
> > Hello all, > > > > Recently my ext2 partition out of space so I have made a regular file > > in the FAT32 partition and format it as ext2 partiton and mount it as > > loop device.However,occasionaly when I extract a large tar to the loop device.. > > The computer will hang while extracting. I wonder if deadlock occur. > > I'm using kernel 2.4.1 now and there is no problem when I am using > > kernel 2.2.x kernel > > There are known problems with some of the 2.4 series kernels and loopback > device support. Look through the kernel archives for Jens Axboe's patches, > or grab one of the latest ac (Alan Cox) kernels.
The fix is also in the 2.4.3-pre series -
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Jup
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