Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Mar 2001 22:50:53 -0500 | From | "Mohammad A. Haque" <> | Subject | Re: "mount -o loop" lockup issue |
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Jason Madden wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, David E. Weekly wrote: > > > On Linux 2.4.2, running a "mount -o loop" on a file properly created with > > "dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/my/file.img count=1024" seems to decide to > > freeze up my shell (not my system). An strace showed the lockup happening at > > the actual system "mount()" call, which never returns. .... > I also experience this problem (using a floppy disk image created by > dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy.img bs=1024, and then mount -o loop > floppy.img /mnt/floppy ) with a different version > of glibc (RedHat's 2.1.92-5 rpm) and binutils (binutils-2.10.0.18-1). Loop > is compiled into the kernel.
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