[Gluster-devel] Loop mounting

[Michael Fincham]

It may yet be a kernel issue. Will test further and advise.

-Michael

On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 09:50 +1200, Michael Fincham wrote:
> Hi Avati, list,
> 
> I've done a bit more testing with some other FUSE filesystems (fusesmb,
> mountlo) and they both support loop-mounting read/write, so I think we
> can rule out it being a FUSE problem.
> 
> Any further ideas?
> 
> -Michael
> 
> On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 21:24 +0530, Anand Avati wrote:
> > Michael,
> >  this seems to be a limitation of FUSE itself, because it is
> > mmap()'ing a file in read-write mode, which seems to have a problem in
> > fuse. I will soon confirm if this is the same cause.
> > 
> > avati
> > 
> > 2007/8/15, Michael Fincham <michael at unleash.co.nz>:
> >         Hi everyone,
> >         
> >         Has anyone had success with loop mounting a file stored on a
> >         glusterfs
> >         volume?
> >         
> >         administrator at vs02:/mnt/temp$ sudo losetup -f file.img
> >         ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Invalid argument
> >         
> >         I get this error but the same image works fine on an ext2
> >         partition. 
> >         
> >         I've discussed this a little on the IRC room, and apparently
> >         it's being
> >         investigated, but I figured I'd ask if anyone else has come up
> >         against it
> >         and has a short-term solution.
> >         
> >         Thanks everyone, esp. glusterfs devs ;) 
> >         
> >         --
> >         -Michael Fincham
> >         Unleash Technology Solutions
> >         
> >         
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> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into
> > account Hofstadter's Law. 
> > 
> > -- Hofstadter's Law
-- 
-Michael Fincham <michael at unleash.co.nz>
Unleash Technology Solutions