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SubjectLoop driver UP deadlock? -- 2.3.99pre[23]
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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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