Timothy Ball wrote:
loop is know to be broken in linux 2.4.0 (which is what the beta tree is
based on)
If you can wait until later tonight or possibly tomorrow test rpm's of the
upcoming prerelease 0.10 will be available on oss.sgi.com.
These rpm's will have the a loop patch applied already.
> Okay well I did it and installed xfs on my debian box. I now have the
> interesting issue that mounting a loop devices doesn't seem to work
> here's what I did:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/win98/block.dat bs=512 count=2500000
> mkfs -t xfs /win98/block.dat
> mount -o loop -t xfs /win98/block.dat test/
>
> The mount then hangs.... forever it seems. I'm using the "beta" cvs tree
> stuff. I'm a bit wary of installing the "fast moving" tree but if it
> fixes that problem I guess I will have to. I did not enable all the
> debuging options, mostly cause I didn't know how to deal w/ them.
>
> TIA,
> timball
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