On Wed, 17 May 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> David Weinehall wrote:
> > > To Do
> > > -----
> > > Loopback fs hangs
> >
> > Definitely show-stopper. Almost every distro (if not every) uses Loopback
> > for their installers, and Loopback is used for a lot of other things too.
>
> 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.
Andries
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