Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Loop driver UP deadlock? -- 2.3.99pre[23] | | From | Daniel Schepler <> | | Date | 26 Mar 2000 01:21:09 -0800 |
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I recently tried to rebuild the Debian boot disks, and discovered that it consistently causes a hang at least with 2.3.99pre2 and later. I haven't tried it yet with earlier kernels. The symptoms are: there is no error message recorded, but the scripts hang sometime during copying files into a filesystem mounted from a loop device. Then, one by one, other processes hang at about the time they'd cause disk activity. I just tried it on 2.2.14 and it made the boot disks successfully. Oddly, though, I can't seem to reproduce it with my own loop FS tests, just with the Debian boot-floppies package.
Let me know if I should try to pinpoint in what version this first occurs, or if you need more detailed config info. -- Daniel Schepler "Please don't disillusion me. I schepler@math.berkeley.edu haven't had breakfast yet." -- Orson Scott Card
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