Re: 2.3.42 loop-device-behaviour

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Thu Feb 03 2000 - 08:09:01 EST


On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Ralf Burger wrote:
> the loop-device-behaviour has changed from .40 to .42 - now the mount locks:

Is this a mount problem?

Richard Johnson reported that the loop device is broken, but I was able
to successfully use loop in an unpatched 2.3.42:

dd if=/dev/zero of=looptest bs=1k count=1024
losetup /dev/loop0 looptest
mke2fs /dev/loop0
mount /dev/loop0 /mnt
...

Regards,

        Jeff

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