I think Jens' latest loop patches made it into 2.4.3-pre3 (or pre4). Anyway, they're working fine for me on my IA32 workstation. jamie:~$ uname -a Linux jamie 2.4.3-pre8 #1 Mon Mar 26 11:37:58 AST 2001 i686 unknown On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:02:19PM -0400, Florian Lohoff wrote: > Hi, > does anyone know if the 2.4.2 kernel does support loop devices - I mean > in the sense of - "It works" - I do have problems with processes like > mke2fs getting hung while accessing the loop without any error message. > > I am not running 2.4.x on any other platform so i cant verify ... > > Flo > -- > Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5201-669912 > Why is it called "common sense" when nobody seems to have any? > -- Jamie Fifield Software Designer Jamie.Fifield@amirix.com AMIRIX Systems Inc. http://www.amirix.com/ Embedded Debian Project http://www.emdebian.org/ 77 Chain Lake Drive 902-450-1700 x247 (Phone) Halifax, N.S. B3S 1E1 902-450-1704 (FAX)
