Re: freeze when mounting cd image using loop

[Andreas Schmidt <andreas@schmidt-privat.de>]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 07:50:17PM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed wrote:
> >>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Schmidt <andreas@schmidt-privat.de> writes:
>     Andreas> Hi Edwin,
>     Andreas> 
>     Andreas> today I had exactly the same problem on my potato box with
>     Andreas> kernel version 2.4.2. So I tried to reboot with kernel
>     Andreas> 2.2.18 and it worked without any problems. I'm afraid there
>     Andreas> is something wrong with the loop module in kernel 2.4.2 or
>     Andreas> maybe an incompatibility with the version of mount from
>     Andreas> potato.
>     Andreas> 
> 
> Loopback device support is currently broken in 2.4.2. Trying to mount an
> ISO image using the loopback device will hang mount so badly that even
> kill -9 on it won't work.
> 
> The bug has been fixed though, in either the ac3 or ac4 patch.
> 
> -- 
> Salman Ahmed
> ssahmed AT pathcom DOT com
>
I've just downloaded the ac6-patch for kernel 2.4.2 from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4 and compiled a
new kernel. The loopback device support is working again.

Thanks for your help.

Bye
Andreas Schmidt