Hi, I'm having trouble with the loop device partition scanning code. If I create a blank file, put a partition table on it with fdisk, and then immediately turn it into a partitioned loop device, the partitions dont always show up. Here is a script to test this: http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/20120719/loop-partition.sh I have reproduced this on 5 systems, a mixture of 32 and 64 bit. It doesn't seem to matter if the underlying filesystem is ext4 or tmpfs. I've reproduced it on 3.3, 3.4.5 and 3.5-rc7. On some systems it seems to always fail within 8 loops. On others it takes more time (100+ loops). I think it crashes more reliable when the system is under load - I'm testing with stress (http://weather.ou.edu/~apw/projects/stress/): stress -c 6 -m 6 -d 1 Any thoughts? Thanks, Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
