On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:16:05PM +0800, you [hingwah@programmer.net] claimed:
> Hello all,
> 
> 	Recently my ext2 partition out of space so I have made a regular file
> in the FAT32 partition and format it  as ext2 partiton and mount it as 
> loop device.However,occasionaly when I extract a large tar to the loop device..
> The computer will hang while extracting. I wonder if deadlock occur.
> I'm using kernel 2.4.1 now and there is no problem when I am using
> kernel 2.2.x kernel

Jens Axboe fixed this. The fix is merged in 2.4.2ac20 and 2.4.3pre6. The fix
will be in 2.4.3. Please search the mailing list archive before asking...


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