On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 12:42:42PM -0800, you [Nate Eldredge] claimed:
> Alan Cox writes:
> > > # mount -t ext2 -o loop /spare/i486-linuxaout.img /spare/mnt
> > > loop: enabling 8 loop devices
> >
> > Loop does not currently work in 2.4. It might partly work by luck
> > but thats it. This will change as and when the new loop patches go
> > in. Until then if you need loop use 2.2
>
> I see. Thank you. I can live without it until then.
>
> Btw, I applied Jens Axboe's loop-3 patch as suggested by Ville Herva.
> It applied with some fuzz and offset. However, when I booted it, the
> kernel oopsed when I tried to mount the first ordinary ext2 partition
> (no loopback involved). I can post the oops if anyone cares, but I
> presume that loop-3 and 2.4.1ac17 are just incompatible.
I'm not sure if it'll apply any more cleanly (and work), but the newest is
loop-4 at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4.2-pre1
(It should work with 2.4.1pre1, at least).
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