On Thu, Mar 08 2001, Thomas Graichen wrote:
> > loop may be the problem here - it is broken in 2.4.2 which our tree is
> > currently based on. Any chance of finding a small disk partition to use
> > instead, this would verify the problem as being in the loop device?
> > Jens Axboe's loop patch does not apply cleanly to our tree or I would
> > tell you to apply it.
>
> > Any volunteers to make a version of loop6 which applies to 2.4.2-XFS?
>
> > p.s. looks like 2.4.3 will fix loop fs problems though.
>
> just put the following together:
>
> http://innominate.org/~graichen/projects/xfs/misc/loop-6-xfs.diff
>
> which is jens' loop-6 patch with all his suggested changes for
> the XFS tree - haven't tried it yet - but it should at least
> apply cleanly and it builds fine (and i think it also should
> work) ... so if anyone needs it - get it
Majordomo (or something) unfortunately ate my message, but I sent a
loop-xfs-7C an hour or so after Steve's original message... So sorry
for any extra work you have done. I've put the loop-xfs-7C patch
here now:
*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/xfs
and now the rest of the list also knows about it's existance :-)
--
Jens Axboe
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