On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 04:46:13PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:20:50AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 04:12:09PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > Ok, patch rescinded. Any opinion on what to do about that bug?
> > > >
> > > > "use loopback" would be one option I guess.
> > > > Given its been an open bug for four years, there's obviously
> > > > not that much interest in fixing the filesystem.
> > >
> > > I don't think it's a bug, it's a lacking feature. The error message
> > > is quite accurate aswell.
> >
> > It seems to be a regression in 2.6.x though. From the report..
> >
> > "Under 2.4.21, it doesnt do this."
>
> Randy mentioned in bugzilla that 2.4.22 didn't work either, so I'd
> be very surprised if 2.4.21 works.
good point. I don't see anything obvious in 2.4.22 that would have
caused a regression, so this sounds suspect.
I'll close the bugzilla out based on your comments, thanks for looking at it.
Dave
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