Re: Loopback filesystem still hangs on 2.4.0-test13-pre7

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Thu, 4 Jan 2001 02:21:19 +0100

On Wed, Jan 03 2001, William Stearns wrote:
> Good day, all,
> This is just meant as an informational message, not a complaint.
> Ted, could you note that this still exists on 2.4.0-test13-pre7 in the
> todo page? Many thanks.
>
> [1.] One line summary of the problem:
> Loopback filesystem writes still hang on 2.4.0-test13-pre7.

Could you try with this patch:

*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4-prerelease/loop-remap-2

it survives 10 runs of your script and dbench abuse etc. If there are still
problems, I'd like to know... Should be faster too :-)

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* Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* SuSE Labs
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