Kernel 2.4.0 loop device still hangs
Hello,
I saw a post dated last fall 2000 sometime about the loop device hanging when copying large amounts of data to a file mounted as, say, ext2fs. It was in regard to kernel 2.4.0test-something.
I have the latest 2.4.0 kernel loaded on my system and this bug appears to be there, although I have seen other notes that claim that it is fixed.
Can anyone confirm whether this bug is "officially" known to be in the official 2.4.0 kernel? Currently I have to reboot to 2.2.17 to do my CD-RW backups.
Thanks.
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Hey all,
I applied the patch "loop-3", from Jen Axboe's 2.4.1-pre10 version, to my 2.4.0 kernel as Jen had suggested we try for the loop device hang problem.
This patch appears to have gotten rid of the problem (at least after testing it once in my previous scenario, which would normally fail 100% of the time on 2.4.0 official).
Thanks Jen!
Can I continue running this patch on 2.4.0 with impunity, or do I need to be careful of anything else? :-)
Mark
Quoted 16 lines · Mark Bratcher
Hello,
I saw a post dated last fall 2000 sometime about the loop device hanging when copying large amounts of data to a file mounted as, say, ext2fs. It was in regard to kernel 2.4.0test-something.
I have the latest 2.4.0 kernel loaded on my system and this bug appears to be there, although I have seen other notes that claim that it is fixed.
Can anyone confirm whether this bug is "officially" known to be in the official 2.4.0 kernel? Currently I have to reboot to 2.2.17 to do my CD-RW backups.
Thanks.
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Quoted 11 lines · Mark Bratcher
Hey all,
I applied the patch "loop-3", from Jen Axboe's 2.4.1-pre10 version, to my 2.4.0 kernel as Jen had suggested we try for the loop device hang problem.
This patch appears to have gotten rid of the problem (at least after testing it once in my previous scenario, which would normally fail 100% of the time on 2.4.0 official).
Thanks Jen!
First of all, I'm all man (not up for debate) so it's Jens not Jen :-)
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Can I continue running this patch on 2.4.0 with impunity, or do I need to be careful of anything else? :-)
It should be safe. Thanks for the feedback.
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* Jens Axboe <[email protected]> * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Jens Axboe wrote:
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First of all, I'm all man (not up for debate) so it's Jens not Jen :-)
[snip]
Doh! I beg your pardon. I must be blind. 8-) 8-)
Mark
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Quoted 2 lines · Jens Axboe
It should be safe. Thanks for the feedback.
The patch works fine here too, but I have not tested it very hard ... just normal read/write small/big files into it.
It looks fine here.
Any thoughts to integrate it into 2.4.1? What's Linus opinion?
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