Loopback driver in 2.3.99-3.6

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Date: Wed Mar 22 2000 - 17:46:52 EST

Hi all,

I presume this is already well known, but using the loopback device on
2.3.99-3.6 (SMP kernel on SMP machine) causes fatal filesystem cache
corruption. Sooner or later the process using it will end up in D state,
and a lot of other processes will too at some point, even if they are not
using the loopback-mounted filesystem.

The filesystem I was using was iso9660, mounted ro.

        -hpa 

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