Jon Schewe <jpschewe at mtu.net> wrote:
> 
> I've got an ext2 filesystem image of my old root filesystem, just in
> case I
> forgot some settings.  Under 2.2.18 I had no truoble mounting it with:
> mount /home/old-root.img /mnt/oldroot -t ext2 -o ro,loop
> 
> Now under 2.4.2 I try the same thing and it just hangs.  Anyone got any
> clues?

Yeah, it's a bug

http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20010302_109.html#11
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4.2-pre4/

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