> Hi, Hi Flo, > 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 ... Unfortunately this isn't a problem with MIPS platform but whole kernel. Loopback is broken. You can use mke2fs -o loop <file> instead /dev/loop0, because loop device will goes to hell. -- ------------------------------------------------------- David "Dave" Jez Brno, CZ, Europe E-mail: dave.jez@seznam.cz PGP key: finger xjezda00@fest.stud.fee.vutbr.cz ---------=[ ~EOF ]=------------------------------------