Comment 18 for bug 428692

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smoser (scott-moser-deactivatedaccount) wrote : Re: [Bug 428692] Re: ec2 kernel needs CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y and other config changes

hi there,
sorry, but i think you might have the wrong 'scott moser'
have you tried '<email address hidden>?'

sorry.
scott

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Scott Moser <email address hidden> wrote:

> Just an update here. John is hoping to get a SRU kernel out to address
> this.
> In the mean time, the largest lack of functionality in the available
> kernels is ext4. To combat that, I've built an ext4 kernel module and made
> those available at
> http://people.canonical.com/~smoser/bugs/428692/<http://people.canonical.com/%7Esmoser/bugs/428692/>. See the README.txt there for more info.
>
> --
> ec2 kernel needs CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y and other config changes
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428692
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> Status in “linux-ec2” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in “linux-ec2” source package in Karmic: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> As seen in bug 418130 comment 25, the ec2 kernel doesn't have
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y set. There are probably other options that differ
> from the other ubuntu kernels.
>
> In general, I think we want to configure the ec2 kernel as much like the
> others as reasonably possible. Specifically, we should at least enable
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y.
>
>
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