RE: 2.6 kernel failing lofs mount from lsb-runtime-test

At 2004/2/5 06:57-0800  Wichmann, Mats D writes:
> This would seem to be what Chis observed: it won't unmount.
> 
> > A reboot into a 2.4 kernel with the modified loopback_disk.ext2
> > generates failures.  Same mount points in /proc/mounts.
> 
> Any chance there are incompatible changes in the ext2
> filesystem module between 2.4 and 2.6?  I guess you
> would have seen this with other filesystems, though.

I've been doing some testing with 2.6.2 and it looks very much like
loopback has a few bugs. At the very least we're leaking inodes and
eventually the filsystem runs out of them, causing lots of test
errors.

Chris
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