Bug#483830: your mail

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 01:31:24PM -0500, Xavier Douville wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have not been able to reproduce this bug, at least not with 2.6.26
> (which is also the kernel used by Fedora Core 9)
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/bigfile bs=1M
> 
> This process ends after filling the 2GB loop device on my laptop (Debian
> testing)
> 
> ctrl+C does take 15 sec but I am not sure if it's a bug. It's instant
> when not doing the command as root.
> 
> I don't have root access on FC9 machines here so I can't compare it.
> 
> iostat returns a valid speed (arround 20 MiB/s)

David, can you confirm that it's fixed with the current Lenny kernel?

Cheers,
        Moritz