Re: patch: loop-5

On Tue, Feb 20 2001, Adam Schrotenboer wrote: > Jens, > > Please excuse this possibly stupid q. I don't know as much about kernel > hacking as I would like to. > > I noticed that you are rewriting the loop block device to be a block > remapper (yes, I had noticed this before, the q just never

Re: patch: loop-5

Jens, Please excuse this possibly stupid q. I don't know as much about kernel hacking as I would like to. I noticed that you are rewriting the loop block device to be a block remapper (yes, I had noticed this before, the q just never occurred to me before); does this imply that the native blo

patch: loop-5

Slightly delayed, but here is loop-5. It's against 2.4.2-pre4, as testing on 2.4.1-ac19 showed other problems (oom killer would kill dbench or bash before it could finish...). I'll take a look at ac19 next. Changes since loop-4: o Make sure loop_thread is up. A mount -o loop could sometimes snea