Bug 9531

Summary:	LOOP_SET_STATUS invalid argument
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Alexander Viro <aviro>
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Description Derek Tattersall 2000-02-17 20:09:17 UTC

When attempting the example of using losetup from the man page, this
message occurs in response to the Init data.  The mke2fs then fails.

Comment 1 Phil Copeland 2001-06-04 15:34:39 UTC

Seems to be broken in all archs and current kernels

[root@dhcpd156 /root]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
loop                   14016   0  (autoclean)

[root@dhcpd156 /root]# losetup -e des /dev/loop0 /file
Password: 
Init (up to 16 hex digits): 
ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: Invalid argument
[root@dhcpd156 /root]#

Comment 2 Arjan van de Ven 2001-06-05 09:30:21 UTC

-e des requires the crypto patch to the kernel, which we don't ship for
historical reasons. We might, if someone cares enough to put it on the
$nextversion featurelist.