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BUG: loop device not work in 2.6.1-mm2 an 2.6.1-mm3

DISCUSSION Andy Lutomirski 2 participants 2 messages Jan 15, 2004 1 message not in the archive Block layer

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Quoted 9 lines · Murilo Pontes

21:44:56 [root@murilo:~]#mount -V
mount: mount-2.12

umount: /tmp/ramdisk_mountdir: não montado
ioctl: LOOP_CLR_FD: No such device or address
mount: será usado o dispositivo de laço /dev/loop/0
ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Argumento inválido

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Are you running reiserfs? If so, this patch (from Ben Slusky) fixed it:

block/loop.c renamed from block/loop.c.old +1 -3
@@ -853,9 +853,7 @@
 		blk_queue_merge_bvec(lo->lo_queue, q->merge_bvec_fn);
 	}
 
-	error = set_blocksize(bdev, lo_blocksize);
-	if (error)
-		goto out_putf;
+	set_blocksize(bdev, lo_blocksize);
 
 	kernel_thread(loop_thread, lo, CLONE_KERNEL);
 	down(&lo->lo_sem);
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Loop work with 2.6.1, but not work with 2.6.1-mm{1,2,3} I try apply your patch in 2.6.1-mm3

11:41:50 [root@murilo:/MRX/drivers/linux-2.6.1]#patch -p0 -i /root/download/loop-mm3.diff patching file drivers/block/loop.c
patch: **** malformed patch at line 4:                 blk_queue_merge_bvec(lo->lo_queue, q->merge_bvec_fn);

Em Qui 15 Jan 2004 06:58, Andy Lutomirski escreveu:

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Quoted 9 lines · Murilo Pontes

21:44:56 [root@murilo:~]#mount -V
mount: mount-2.12

umount: /tmp/ramdisk_mountdir: não montado
ioctl: LOOP_CLR_FD: No such device or address
mount: será usado o dispositivo de laço /dev/loop/0
ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Argumento inválido

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Are you running reiserfs? If so, this patch (from Ben Slusky) fixed it:

block/loop.c renamed from block/loop.c.old +1 -4
@@ -853,9 +853,7 @@
  		blk_queue_merge_bvec(lo->lo_queue, q->merge_bvec_fn);
  	}
 
-	error = set_blocksize(bdev, lo_blocksize);
-	if (error)
-		goto out_putf;
+	set_blocksize(bdev, lo_blocksize);
 
  	kernel_thread(loop_thread, lo, CLONE_KERNEL);
  	down(&lo->lo_sem);
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