Re: Linux 2.3.99pre9-2 JOB list

From: Steve Dodd (steved@loth.demon.co.uk)
Date: Sat May 20 2000 - 17:17:14 EDT

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On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 02:25:03AM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Wed, 17 May 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> > Are we talking about a loopback filesystem, or the loopback block
> > device? Andries' patch for the loopback block device made it into a
> > recent 2.3.x kernel.
>
> You are too optimistic. I fixed a refcount flaw.
> I did not fix anything related to actual I/O.
> No, the loop device is still seriously broken.

The current mess appears to be a set of interesting tq_disk interactions (I
can explain what I think is happening if anyone cares). The fix should be
to disable plugging for the loop device, but I've not tried it.

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