Hello, it seems I am having a problem with loop mounting on ext3. I am doing this: - make an ext2 filesystem in a file - loop mount this file - write into the loop mounted file system - umount the file Sometimes this works; occasionally the file remains empty after the umount. A sync before the umount seems to help. Is this a known problem? Thanks, Andreas.
On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: I forgot to mention that this occurs with linux-2.4.15 on a SuSE-7.3 system.> Hello, > > it seems I am having a problem with loop mounting on ext3. I am doing > this: > > - make an ext2 filesystem in a file > - loop mount this file > - write into the loop mounted file system > - umount the file > > Sometimes this works; occasionally the file remains empty after the > umount. A sync before the umount seems to help. > > Is this a known problem? > > Thanks, > Andreas. > >
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 07:41:38PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:> On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > > I forgot to mention that this occurs with linux-2.4.15 on a SuSE-7.3 > system. > > > Hello, > > > > it seems I am having a problem with loop mounting on ext3. I am doing > > this: > > > > - make an ext2 filesystem in a file > > - loop mount this file > > - write into the loop mounted file system > > - umount the file > > > > Sometimes this works; occasionally the file remains empty after the > > umount. A sync before the umount seems to help.this is a known problem with kernel 2.4.15. Take a look at 2.4.16-pre1 or wait one or two days for 2.4.16. -- Regards, Wiktor Wodecki | http://johoho.eggheads.org wodecki@gmx.de | IRC: Johoho@IrcNET